Lew Toulmin, PhD, FRGS, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of The Explorers Club. He has worked in 30 developing countries and traveled to 145 of the world’s 196 nations. He and his wife Susan live in Silver Spring.
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… Read More
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… Read More
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. Each… Read More
My wife and I just returned from a five-week trip through England. We had a super once-in-ten-years US-UK family reunion at a moated manor house, a week in a Cotswold… Read More
Never heard of Buc-ee’s? You will. Soon. It’s another Southern phenomenon that is slowly moving North, taking over the country. Is it a Southern phenom like voter suppression, fire ants… Read More
Tanks! Tanks! Tanks! 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. and NATO… Read More
This past month I had a gratifying but shocking experience down in my native state of Alabama. I traveled to the state capital of Montgomery, having been invited to attend… Read More
When you go on that neat summer driving vacation this summer, you’re going to wear your seat belt, right? Of course. You are smart and good at risk assessment, and… Read More
Recall from my articles last month and the month before, that the Barry Broman film “Who Killed Jim Thompson?” asserts that the famous American, Jim Thompson, the “Silk King of… Read More
The Asserted Sequence of Events Last month in this column we learned that ex-CIA officer Barry Broman asserted in 2017 in a documentary film at the Foreign Correspondents Club of… Read More
The most mysterious disappearance in Asia is almost certainly that of Jim Thompson, the “Silk King of Thailand,” who vanished in the high jungles of Malaysia in 1967. The 61-year-old… Read More
RAC Woodcote Park No-one from my club in D.C. had ever reviewed the Royal Automobile Club—Woodcote Park in southwest London—so we decided to check it out. An unusual reason to… Read More