Travel Tales

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, England.  As described in… Read More

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