This is my final segment of a photo-rich Book 1 survey of North American colonial history, until the be beginning of the 19th century...

I’ve spent a night on Halong Bay, on the coast of North Vietnam, twice. Both times, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience — (1) hauling...

“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn...

A movie just released to the public, titled "Chappaquiddick", presents a version of events that linked now deceased Ted Kennedy, a former...

The Archangel Michael I arrived in Ponta Delgada, from Boston, at 6:30 am Saturday morning in late May, but there was no room at the inn...

The Olympic Peninsula, the last stop on a journey across the Canadian Rockies to Seattle.

Visitors to Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula must cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca