Complex sentence: Every year he drives down to the Florida Keys to gaze across the water toward Havana, hoping one day to see her again, but also realizing that the changes in Cuba were being echoed in the changes of the 1960s happening in America.
Split into simpler sentences: Every year he drives down to the Florida Keys to gaze across the water toward Havana. Hoping one day to see her again, but also realizing the changes in Cuba were being echoed in the changes of the 1960s happening in America.