And though we moved back to the United States in 2012, we have travelled back from time to time, and South African friends visit us here in America and otherwise keep in touch.
"There are a few little bits here and there but otherwise it is generally the same.
Stands of poplars line the roads out of town and rise here and there from otherwise desolate-looking earth.
I have to go and get a few tips here and there, but otherwise I think I'm O.K".
"There's nothing wrong with our public schools, and I take great offense to people coming in here and telling me otherwise," said Susan Winkler, who has a child in third grade and another in sixth.
We had been "changing" the oil pretty regularly (read: dumping in a quart here and there), but otherwise running the car pretty constantly without any high heat precautions.
The question isn't "How do we create an entrepreneurial ecosystem?" because that has clearly been done by the more than 30 active investment funds, thousands of entrepreneurs, multiple co-working spaces and many sources of tech education (both academic and otherwise) here already.
There are probably more casas than tourists here -- both legal and otherwise - so fresh meat off the bus from Havana is ripe for the plucking.
Sexual confession is hot, after all, both economically and otherwise, and here was an author who hit all the hottest buttons.
