Table Mountain in South Africa is made from a species of very hard sandstone called, naturally enough, Table-Mountain sandstone. Rumor has it there’s another half to Table Mountain on the coast of Brazil . ....

Of all the places I’d imagined drunken sailors, the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War was not among them. But that was before Peg and I got a look at the sake bottles...

In 1920, a former officer in the Royal Field Artillery with and the delightfully English name of Lieutenant Colonel, Stewart Gore-Browne, DSO, moved to Northern Rhodesia and built himself an English country house at Shiwa...

When I was a kid there was a TV witch named Miss Boo. I never knew much about Miss Boo except that, starring in a kids’ TV show, she was a friendly witch. And, years...

While I was growing up, the Georgia Department of Revenue ran public service announcements warning against untaxed liquor. Alcohol that isn’t taxed isn’t regulated and, if it isn’t regulated, there’s no telling what you might...

Mozambique was the most war-torn place I’ve ever been, and I was in Saigon in 1968. Once, when Peggy was stuck in a meeting in Maputo, Wes and I decided to head up the coast...

In the spring of ’08 while Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama were duking it out in the presidential primaries, Peggy and I visited a game park in South Africa. There we met a British newspaper...

Viewed from the outside, the Great Pyramid at Giza looks like such a heap of stone it never occurred to me that it might be possible to go inside. To the uninitiated, it’s looked that way...

Like a lot of us, I’m a sucker for charismatic mega-fauna, especially when that megafauna is penguins. The conscientious way they stand guard over their chicks shows them off as better parents than I ever...

In La Paz, the Witches’ Market is the happening place for Llama fetuses. Peg and I weren’t shopping for llama fetuses. But we did have a few days on our hands, and all the brochures mentioned...