W/NW: transportation

[peterm1]

Love the look of the harlequin paint scheme on this HK Star Ferry.

Victoria Harbour by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

 

[Bob Michaels]

Barajagua, Holguin, Cuba: local picking up his kids from school as he does everyday. Horses are normal transportation in Cuba because they are inexpensive to use needing no petrol. Few Cubans can afford a halter or saddle but do fine with a rope and a blanket.

 

[Bob Michaels]

Here is a little photo story about some of the various modes of transportation seen around the one block downtown area of Cueto, the small town in eastern Cuba where I live part time. (13 photos)

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[Pentudlian]

What an engrossing story that is!. Thank you for posting.

 

[kuuan]

What an engrossing story that is!. Thank you for posting.

yes, makes me want to visit Cuba


city center by andreas, on Flickr, Pentax K-x + Sigma 17-70mm, India 2010

 

[Bob Michaels]

What an engrossing story that is!. Thank you for posting.

Pentudlian and Kuuan: thanks. Transportation for Cubans has been a real problem for decades. However, their creativity, entrepreneurial spirit and social structure of sharing seems to bridge the gap. There are many who will use any sort of personal transportation as a business to deal with the overflow that official transport vehicles cannot handle. And, by law, any government vehicle of any type with available seating it required to give others a ride. I have had vehicles from school buses to police cars stop to give me a ride. Hitchhiking is commonplace even for young single females. I have ridden in the cabs of locomotives, shared the seat in tractors, and ridden in the back of many horse drawn wagons.

Using Cuban transportation in small towns is a real cultural experience. Too bad most tourists never go beyond paying big bucks to have a guide drive them around Havana in a 1950's American convertible.

 

[ornate_wrasse]

Leica M9, 90mm Macro Elmar
New York City
Cal graciously let me borrow his 90mm Macro Elmar lens for this shot

 

[p.giannakis]

Kodak TMax400 in Rodinal

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Fujinon XF 60mm f2.4 R lens, X-Pro2 camera
Astia film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - June, 2019

Mike

 

[Out to Lunch]

Out to Lunch, on Flickr. You have been warned... Hong Kong Airport, July 2010. Canon 5DII - L2.8/85.

 

[Taipei-metro]

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210 Fwy West, Pasadena,

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Pasadena,

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Los Angeles International Airport,
Los Angeles County 2019

images by taipei-metro

g6, 14-42, media by Kingston Taiwan

 

[kuuan]

Pentudlian and Kuuan: thanks. Transportation for Cubans has been a real problem for decades. However, their creativity, entrepreneurial spirit and social structure of sharing seems to bridge the gap. There are many who will use any sort of personal transportation as a business to deal with the overflow that official transport vehicles cannot handle. And, by law, any government vehicle of any type with available seating it required to give others a ride. I have had vehicles from school buses to police cars stop to give me a ride. Hitchhiking is commonplace even for young single females. I have ridden in the cabs of locomotives, shared the seat in tractors, and ridden in the back of many horse drawn wagons.

Using Cuban transportation in small towns is a real cultural experience. Too bad most tourists never go beyond paying big bucks to have a guide drive them around Havana in a 1950's American convertible.

Bob thank you so much for the very educating and beautiful report. Makes me want to visit Cuba all that more again! Ojala mi espanol me ayudaria a disfrutar la gente, su cultura y sus modos de transporte



Japan Taxi by andreas, on Flickr, Pentax *istDs, Tele Kominar f3.5/135mm, Osaka 2008

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Voigtlander 50mm f1.1 Nokton VM lens, Sony A7III
Yokohama, Japan - July 2019

Mike