Travel Tales

Have you noticed how many men in British literature, films and TV mention going to “my club”?  What are they talking about?  This month and next we will explore London’s… Read More

Two months ago I gave you some tips for tackling the famous Camino de Santiago 500-mile path across northern Spain. This month I’ll tell you about some of the highlights… Read More

As a practitioner of emergency management, I have developed an informal theory (that I would never dare publish in any professional journal) that every disaster or major world event is… Read More

Since you are reading this travel column, you doubtless have heard of El Camino de Santiago – the famous, UNESCO World Heritage pilgrimage path that runs for almost 500 miles… Read More

Do you think our democracy is in danger? If so, do you want to do something to save it? I have found a way to travel virtually to key swing… Read More

Deer tick season is upon us, and Lyme disease and other tick-borne ailments are a serious health threat, with about one-tenth of Americans having been infected. Today I will give… Read More

After an epic struggle, equal representation on the Board of Directors has been achieved by descendants of the enslaved at President James Madison’s Montpelier plantation in central Virginia. This struggle… Read More

I predicted in this column back in mid-January, before the invasion of Ukraine, that Putin would invade and would focus on seizing the Black Sea coast, in order to strangle… Read More

Have a rusty “lemon” car in your back yard that barely runs? Love road adventures and general silliness? There’s a LeMons Rally in your future! This past month I hooked… Read More

Tired of that obnoxious boss?  Sick of freezing winter?  Peeved that your country and its pandemic has killed almost a million of its citizens, and is sliding from democracy into… Read More

My best man at my wedding – a great guy and U.S. citizen – now lives in Ukraine with his Ukrainian wife and family.  I want to travel there and… Read More

As an economist I was trained to make gargantuan assumptions and then reason from them – reality be damned! So let’s make some: First, in 2022 Covid will be whipped,… Read More