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  Wild dogs are one of the rarest mammals in Africa: there are only about 5000 left. They were never plentiful to start with, but recently their numbers have collapsed due to habitat loss, vermin extermination campaigns and canine distemper. … Continue reading →

 One travels to Australia for many reasons–the reefs, the deserts, the rainforests, the animals…but I went there to earn my Delta Platinum Medallion for 2011. Shallow? Yes. Frivolous? Certainly…but when I read that a flight to Sydney could be had … Continue reading →

     Seriously, if this is your idea of a beach vacation, stay home. From the US, getting there is tough to say the least and there are plenty of closer beaches. If, on the other hand, you have an interest in meeting … Continue reading →

Heat, humidity, water with a slight sulfur taste—surely this is a foretaste of hell. However, none of the biblical warnings prepared me for the mosquitoes! Sitting under the canopy of tangled Live Oak branches at Sea Camp, I wondered what … Continue reading →

Herman Wouk’s Don’t Stop the Carnival, one of the finest books to have come out of the West Indes, was inspired by life on the Virgin Islands. The book tells of the succession of disasters that befell a New York … Continue reading →

Is Turkey where the modern world began? It appears to be. Everything is here from ultra-modern Istanbul, ancient ruins that are so numerous they line the highways, beautiful coastline, unbelievable food, and gracious people. This is certainly a country by which the … Continue reading →

Green and wet. I mean rich green and soaking wet. I think we saw an old fence post sprouting green leaves along the roadside. It was 8 hours plus of uninterrupted sheets of falling water. The climate was so wet, that the … Continue reading →