A great little museum: The Kansas Cosmosphere
If you ever find yourself in south central Kansas, make time for a visit to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson. It’s a fantastic museum to the history […]
If you ever find yourself in south central Kansas, make time for a visit to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson. It’s a fantastic museum to the history […]
Last year, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of more than 1,500 lives, produced television specials, the re-release of James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic […]
When Britain launched the first three recorded assaults on Mount Everest in 1921, ’22 and ’24, the nation was still recovering from the trauma of World War I, as were […]
To the countless fans of Sherlock Holmes, his fictional exploits are as real as 221B Baker St., the Langham Hotel, Charing Cross Station, the Lyceum Theater and one Holmesian landmark […]
ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, France — This is the grimmest of all European war memorials. More grim than any towering monument. More grim than any neatly manicured military cemetery with its symmetric rows […]
I found Pint-Sized Ireland by Evan McHugh last weekend in a used book store in Dallas. There were at least 20 copies on the shelf, and having blown through the […]
An overseas bicycle trip was something I had been thinking about for two or three years. I had never been to Ireland, and when plans for a more traditional trip […]
The Ride: About 35 miles, 1,900 feet of climbing. For a map, click here. After leaving Killarney we turned off onto a hard-packed bicycle track through Killarney National Park and […]