Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press)

Author - Christopher Baker ... [Goo?] [Posters]

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1) Paperback Book Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press) by National Geographic. I happen to love great travel books and this was fantastic. It has been few years since I read this book but it was a fast and fun read. You get a real sense of the culture and the country. The book was always moving and that is what i like about travel books.¤

2) Paperback Book Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press) by National Geographic. Mr. Baker´s book is riveting, entertaining, and educational. I am Cuban born and had visited Cuba prior to the "special period". Mr. Baker´s account is fair and balanced and highlights the Castro regime´s failures and accomplishments. For anyone wishing to find out what it is like in Cuba - look no further! It is a fabulous read.¤

3) Paperback Book Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press) by National Geographic. Although Baker is an unapologetic womanizer and takes avantage of many women who obviously want him so as to escape Cuba, the book is interesting in that it highlights many of the failures of the cuban revolution; the prostitution, bad food. Meanwhile, he catches the friendliness of the people.¤

4) Paperback Book Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press) by National Geographic. Some men buy a red convertible. Some take a mistress. This is not news, nor newsworthy. Another title of this book could be, "A Boy, A Bike and A Penis". White male heterosexuality at it´s banal worst. But then again, no one forced me to read it! If you want to know about the conditions in Cuba, this is NOT the book to read. If you want to live vicariously, it´s all yours!¤

5) Paperback Book Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press) by National Geographic. a drunk finnish skipper gives him ze helm of his boat in 15 foot seas, then goes below for a nap. this after showing him how to read the instrument panel and telling him his compas has just been installed and is 10 degrees off. uh huh. then the panel goes dark, who knows why; maybe the 15 foot seas? should he wake the captain, nah, why do that when he can steer by the compass?
this is just the beginning of the book. this guy is so self absorbed that he writes his own review filled with what? more reviews! skip this work of fiction.¤

6) Paperback Book Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press) by National Geographic. MI MOTO FIDEL: MOTORCYCLING THROUGH CASTRO´S CUBA is a unique, exhil-arating solo adventure into Cuba astride a cherry-red, 1000cc BMW Paris-Dakar motorcycle. Christopher Baker´s moto journey took three months, sparking a love affair with the island and giving him instant entree to a people deprived of - and obsessed with - motorized wheels, especially ones covered by chrome. "Cubans rarely betray a sense of astonishment," he writes in Mi Moto Fidel. "Their lives are so topsy-turvy, there´s not much that can surprise them anymore. But the motorbike held them spellbound. With its gloss-red tubular steel frame and armor plating designed to protect the moto from a rhino stampede, the Paris-Dakar was unlike anything ever seen. You´d think I´d landed in a flying saucer." With this opening, Baker met a tremendous variety of Cubans - tobacco growers and hookers, fishermen and santeros, soldiers and dissidents, teachers and shopkeepers - in every corner of the island. He describes the encounters with humor and insight, delves into history and politics, and from his singular vantage presents a close-up look at the island´s towns, cities, and landscapes. "The soft texture of Cuba and the microwave heat got to me. It felt intoxicating. Just me and the bike purring steadily along a wide-open road, dipping and rising beneath a cerulean sky."¤

7) Paperback Book Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (Adventure Press) by National Geographic. Mi Moto Fidel, Christopher Baker´s intriguing account of his three-month romp through Cuba on a fire-engine red motorcycle is perhaps the most thorough portrait of this faded Communist country to date. Baker leaves no stone unturned as he revisits Ernest Hemingway´s haunts in Havana, checks out a secret cave in the foothills of the sierras that once served as Che Guevara´s command post during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and sips motojos at a thatched-roofed beach bar on Playa Los Pinos. On this exhaustive journey, our leather-clad "yanqui" interacts with a myriad of characters from artists to farmers to fisherman to prostitutes, and engages in lively discussions on everything from politics, sex, cigars, and, of course, on the aging revolutionary himself, Fidel Castro. Baker effectively captures the essence of the Cuban people--primarily their generosity and resilient spirit--and his various dalliances with beautiful habaneras (Daisy, Sonia, and Juanita, to name a few) will pique readers´ interest (men´s more than women´s, understandably). By the time Baker winds up back in Havana he has covered some 7,000 miles on his cherished bike. After reading Mi Moto Fidel, you´ll no doubt be inspired to hit the road. --Jill Fergus¤

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