“They hate Americans.” Oh, bullshit. I’ve heard that silly line so many times I’ve lost count. It’s just one more sign of how ignorant Americans are, how watching television has destroyed their minds. Having traveled to 97 countries, and interacted … Read the rest of this article.
Honesty Is the Best Policy
In William Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet, the title character says, “To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” No man ever understood the complexities of human nature, or wrote about … Read the rest of this article.
North Korea: a Case Study
There’s no education like travel, and especially travel to “controversial” countries – countries that have a dark, evil, dangerous image, thanks to the mind-bending techniques employed by the mass media. It’s all very Orwellian. As Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four, … Read the rest of this article.
Special Moments in Europe
I’ve visited Europe many times and covered the whole continent, though there’s much I haven’t seen. I’ve traveled by bus, train, and rental car, and twice with small groups on extended hikes. Even now, I’d love to go back and … Read the rest of this article.
Travel Is My Lifeblood
When I was a boy growing up in the early 1960s, I often played the board game “Pirate and Traveler” with my friends. The board displayed a map of the world and distant ports with names like Cape Town, Bombay, … Read the rest of this article.