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I want to get a setup i can keep in my car so i can light up a half pipe or a small park at night. two or three smallish lights and i figure i can make my own stand or something. current problem is most lights i have found are plug in and i can’t think of a way to power them without a generator which i kind of want to avoid.

I have been skating for 22 years. The last 4 years my knees have been getting steadily worse, surgeon said I have maybe 2 to 3 more years of real skating before I have to be done. I have always wanted to skate Tampa, the actual park, the one I have watched on video since I was 13. Tampa Pro is the goal but even just rolling around the park itself on an off weekend would be enough for me.

The bigger story is that my fiancée and I are doing the trip together and tacking on a few days in Cuba because her grandfather was Cuban and she has never been to the country. He passed last year and we have been talking about a memorial visit ever since. So this trip is part skate trip, part heritage trip, part last hurrah for my knees.

Both our passports are expired. Mine expired during the pandemic because I was not going anywhere with locked down knees. Hers has been expired for years. The Cuba leg is the part that is making my head spin because the licensing rules for US travelers to Cuba are their own thing, it is not as simple as showing up. And the official passport site is somehow even more confusing than the OFAC general license categories.

For anyone who has done the Cuba trip with the support for the Cuban people license or knows the current rules, what should I actually expect? And on the side, any way to handle two passport renewals at once without losing my mind on the gov website?