Simsbury, CT Boy Scout Troop 175 is the first BSA troop to visit Cuba in 57 years.
Brad Mead, the troop's Scoutmaster, said the trip is part of Troop 175's mission to take the Scouts to unique places.
"We are a rather unusual troop," Mead said. "We go all over the world. We've been up Mount Kilimanjaro twice, we've been deep in the Amazon jungle, we've been rafting down the Zambezi River, we've been to Alaska a couple of times."
Mead said the idea for a trip to Cuba came about when travel between the United States and Cuba was reinstated a few years ago.
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