After many years of visiting and always giving my last CUC to Lafonda’s family, I decided, in 2018, to keep a few hundred CUC for the next visit, which would have likely been the following year. I hadn’t counted on Covid-19 keeping us away for a total of five. Nor had I envisioned that in 2021, the Cuban Government would scrap the CUC - effectively turning my CUC into Monopoly money.