If you want to go to Cuba, you better go very soon.  One of these days the United States will lift the embargo and the last fifty years of Cuban history will vanish.  Jay Leno and ten thousand other guys just like him will swoop down on that little island like the Assyrians of old.  They’ll be hauling bushel baskets of Benjamin Franklins with them and offering them up for everything from cars to baseball cards.  Fidel’s Revolution simply won’t be able to survive the tsunami of cash.  This is no sin by the way, it’s just a fact.  History has a way of changing its attire to suit the occasion.  Castro and his crew knew this as far back as 1959 and sloganed it appropriately with Hasta Siempre.
All photographs by Carolyn Bourcier.

Mexico isn’t just drug deals and shootings.  At the risk of turning a beautiful little village into a swamp of tourists, here are some pictures of Akumel, on the Yucatan peninsula.  It’s south of Cancun on the way to the Mayan ruins at Tulum.  It was one of the first places Spanish tourists came to in the 16^th century, but now it’s kinda lost in the Mayan Riviera.  If you like it, don’t tell anybody.
All photographs by Carolyn Bourcier.