SWEETLIVING

The long but interesting way from Puerto Rico to Cuba

It´s Valentines day, the 14th of February, the clock rings at 5 am, telling me to get up, pack my shit, take a shower and head out to my ride. After a beach party, that is not exactly what my body wanted to do, but the next adventure was waiting so up I went.

Arrived at the airport around 7 am, my flight was 12pm, all I can say about that is thank god for the free Wi-Fi I found in a bar ;-)

I boarded the plane, hoping to get some sleep on my way to Miami, to then change flight to Cancun, Mexico, and then finally to Havana, Cuba. But I didn´t get one minute of sleep because of the cool couple sitting down next to me. They were an elderly couple from Nokomis, near Saraso, Tampa (Florida), and we ended up talking all the way from Puerto Rico, the most interesting talk I´ve had in a long time! It turned out that the guy, whos name is Kit S. Kapp is working as a map writer, and is still working at an age of 70+, respect! And because of his work and interest in all countries he has been almost everywhere in the world, and the places he haven´t been to, he knew about, he even knew about Uppsala, and hes wife, Valerie Kapp, had when she was younger, met two guys from Uppsala on a trip somewhere, and apperently they were really nice and great, of course, like all people from Uppsala ;-)

I was so happy to meet him. The stories he could tell about all the places he´d seen, experienced and loved, didn´t have an end, he could almost tell you everything about every place in the world. He randomly picked up a magazine from the seat of the plane and on the front there was a picture of an Indian woman wearing a special outfit. He knew exactly what kind of culture she belonged to and the story about that, so cool! I mean, he was the guy I want to be when I´m 70, still healthy and able to travel around the world and know everything, he was a Travel-God!

So thank you, Kit & Valerie, for choosing a seat next to me, you made my flight the best ever!