Why return ? / Por que regresar?

                                                            Students hitch hiking.

Cuban scenary.

Sometimes Cubans wonder why exiles and Cubans who have immigrated to another country, do return to visit. The people whose biggest ambition was to leave Cuba as soon as possible and now wish to revisit as much as possible.

It is very different to revisit Cuba and travel in an air conditioning rent a car compared to trying to hitch hike in the boiling sun for hours on end, the Cuban way. Looking out the landscape from a comfortable air conditioning car you see the beauty of the countryside and it is sharp colors like a postcard, as you have never seen it before.

Local Cubans wonder if Cuba has something special. I guess you have to be an emigrated to know this. That only when you leave that land is that you start loving it a little. That for us the magic is that back there are the places that are especial for us in our minds, our first school, the language, the neighbors, our first teacher, the road where we learnt to ride our first bike.

It is like going through a photo album of our lives (especially in Cuba where not much change) it is the place where we did belong, it is our past and that is the reason why we love to comeback.

Sometimes we are too busy with our present and in not mood to go there but we arrive and we fall in love with that place again.