Travel Tales

My wife and I have always had the Utah parks on our “to do bucket list”, and this past spring we filled the bucket to the brim. We spent nine… 阅读更多

Last month I provided a Situation Report (SitRep) on the Ukraine war in the areas of geography; air; sea; cyber/comms; information; infrastructure/petro; and economic warfare. This month I will analyze… 阅读更多

Who is winning the war in Ukraine? Everyone knows the answer, right? The Situation Report (SitRep) is that Ukraine is losing, correct? 也许. Let’s figure it out. To do this,… 阅读更多

This past month the war in Ukraine passed five important but terrible milestones: two years since the war began; 400,000 Russian soldiers killed or very seriously wounded; about 180,000 Ukrainian… 阅读更多

A Royal Refuge, Brideshead Revisited, and a 170-Year-Long Lawsuit Recall from two earlier monthly columns that Thomas Ligon/Lygon, the progenitor of the American Ligon line, is my proven great-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandfather, 和… 阅读更多

In July 2023 I was privileged and lucky to be able to attend the reunion of the Ligon/Lygon family at the astounding Madresfield Court, in Worcestershire, 英格兰.  As described in… 阅读更多

Today “adventure travel” usually means getting on a plane, flying for a few hours to an exotic location like the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, and watching wildebeest migrate while sipping… 阅读更多

History of Tunnels Under Gaza The tunnels under the Gaza Strip originated in the 1980s as smuggling routes between Gaza and Egypt, and expanded dramatically after the 2007 Egyptian-Israeli blockade… 阅读更多

In 1833 the English economist William Lloyd published a pamphlet in which he described the hypothetical over-use of a parcel of grazing land, held in common by village farmers. 每一个… 阅读更多

My wife and I just returned from a five-week trip through 英格兰. We had a super once-in-ten-years US-UK family reunion at a moated manor house, a week in a Cotswold… 阅读更多

Never heard of Buc-ee’s? 你会. 很快. It’s another Southern phenomenon that is slowly moving North, taking over the country. Is it a Southern phenom like voter suppression, fire ants… 阅读更多

坦克! 坦克! 坦克!  F-16s! F-16s! F-16s!  If you read the world’s press, you would think that numerous main battle tanks and F-16 jets, largely withheld by the U.S. 和北约…… 阅读更多