The Great Race Crosses Maryland: Part 2
Last month I described the Great Race, the classic car rally run each year across different routes in North America. Today I’ll cover the highlights of the 2024 Great Race… Read More
Travel Tales
The Great Race: The Coolest Car Event You Never Heard Of (Part 1)
The Great Race got started in 1983, when three car nuts decided to stage an antique car rally from Knotts Berry Farm near Los Angeles all the way to the… Read More
Utah’s Greatest Parks Part 3
Recall from the last two months of Travel Tales that in the spring of 2024 my wife and I drove through 500 miles of terrific parks in southern Utah. We… Read More
Utah’s Greatest Parks Part 2: Capitol Reef to Bryce Canyon
Recall from last month’s column that in the spring of 2024 my wife and I drove through 500 miles of fabulous parks in southern Utah. The second leg of our… Read More
Utah’s Greatest Parks Part 1
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… Read More
Ukraine War SitRep, Part 3
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… Read More
Ukraine War SitRep, Part 2
Who is winning the war in Ukraine? Everyone knows the answer, right? The Situation Report (SitRep) is that Ukraine is losing, correct? Maybe. Let’s figure it out. To do this,… Read More
Good, Bad and Surprising News from the War in Ukraine, Part 1
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… Read More
The Ligon Family History, Part 3
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, and… Read More
The Ligon Family Reunion at Madresfield Court, Part 2
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
Col. Ligon’s Adventure Travel and Family Reunions
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
Into the Tunnels Under Gaza
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