Peggy and I wound up with three other couples on a sailboat in the Ionian Sea because our friends from Australia invited us. How the captain wound up on that boat was never made clear....
If you grew up in the South, it was impossible not to See Rock City SEE ROCK CITY was emblazoned on the roof of every barn and bird house in Georgia. And Alabama. And Tennessee and both Carolinas,...
Back when the Underworld was in its glory days, a lot of people went to visit. Thetis, to dunk baby Achilles into the River Styx and make him invulnerable. Odysseus, to check in with Achilles...
On the map, Chilean Patagonia has looked like the southern end of Spanish America since the Fifteen-Hundreds. But the locals didn’t have maps. What they had was enough ferocity and enough knowledge of the land...
Göbekli Tepe is a knoll in eastern Turkey set in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains. To get there, Peg and I headed south from Istanbul almost to the border with Syria, skirted past a...
Cape Horn, jutting like a rhinoceros horn from the very bottom of South America, is as aptly named a piece of real estate you’re likely to find. At least that’s what I’d always supposed. For hundreds...
I’d always imagined our embassies were stately affairs, welcoming, yet dignified. Tastefully appointed with paneled offices, carpeted floors and elegantly dressed diplomats discussing matters of state in precise, measured tones. Our best face forward. A...
Having preciously descended to a thousand feet with Karl Stanley and his homemade submarine, two-thousand feet beckoned and we decided to go again. Karl, if you know your who’s whoms in the world of backyard submarine...
Genesis is a bit vague about where the Garden was located, but being furnished with every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, along with perfect weather and animals that don’t...
Despite the murder of the occasional investigative journalist, I’ve always thought Malta sounded like a good place to retire. It’s a sunny, Mediterranean isle that’s just about as close to everywhere in Southern Europe or Northern...