When Two Opposite Things Are Still True

On my last great adventure to Cuba

The summer I was 25 years old, in 1997, I traveled illegally to Cuba. It was my second trip, though the first one, six months earlier, was entirely legal. Technically it wasn’t illegal to travel to Cuba, but it was illegal to spend U.S. dollars in Cuba. Unless, of course, you got official permission from the Treasury Department, which my best friend and…