Walking Cuba: El Camino del Cimarron

Guillermo Grenier
6 min readMar 29, 2024

Day 5 (cont.): The Ariosa — Where Esteban Met Ana

The simple truth is that I never needed anything in the woods. The only thing I couldn’t have was sex. Since there were no women, I had to get by with my desire bottled up. I couldn’t even step up to a mare (yegua), because they neighed like the dickens. And when the guajiros heard the clamor they…

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Guillermo Grenier

Havana born, U.S. educated sociologist. Critical. Long distance trekking is my meditation. Also my medication. Some walking tales at onwalkingcuba.blogspot.com.