tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237690256788346400.post3494465458026722621..comments2019-09-26T12:12:46.440-07:00Comments on My Embellished Life: Cuban CustomsDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04253715813098509695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237690256788346400.post-4925095103424260052012-05-31T14:03:55.730-07:002012-05-31T14:03:55.730-07:00As a writer, I easily carried my retired, 5 year-o...As a writer, I easily carried my retired, 5 year-old laptop in to the country. My wife "accidentally" left it with a university professor whose own computer had died months earlier, leaving him to write his own Ph.D. and manage his class curriculum with pen and paper. And we were struck too, that all the forms we filled out were not even looked at when we left the country. Much ado about nothing -- in some ways!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237690256788346400.post-21811582534942230972012-05-31T13:56:32.970-07:002012-05-31T13:56:32.970-07:00A very familiar story to me... I have been to Cuba...A very familiar story to me... I have been to Cuba six times carrying much needed supplies to families. Every single time, I am taken out of the line in customs and searched. Once, I caused a huge uproar with a laptop computer I planned to leave. The agents told me I would have to pay $400 in taxes if I planned to leave it as a gift. I said "No thanks, you can have it." I don't think they expected my answer. It was two hours of paperwork just to carry the laptop into Cuba and I had to sign papers saying I would not leave it when I left. How crazy?? In the end, I could have left it and no one would have known.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com