My earliest memory was about 30 years ago when I first started smoking cigars. I'd had non Cubans but never a real Cuban. My girlfriend and I (now my wife) went to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico with a couple of friends. We stopped of at a Sanborns Department Store in CanCun because we knew that they only sold authentic Cuban Cigars and picked up two Cohiba Lanceros. Even back then they were expensive. at $18 or was it $23. We played golf the next day in Playacar and just got blasted with Cohiba goodness. We actually played good golf regardless of the strength of those cigars and those flavors of cream, vanilla, caramel. I distinctly remember how smooth the wrapper was in the humidity and how I babied it so it would last a long time and of course so I wouldn't get too messed up. My buddy Dave and I talked more that day then ever before. We talked about all kinds of stuff and we laughed our asses off. Suffice it to say, I was hooked and I had to smuggle some home.