Brits in the USA

There's a song by The Stranglers called Whatever Happened to the Heroes. It describes how Leon Trotsky "got an ice pick that made ...

You have to drive all the way through Arches National Park to get to Devil's Garden but it is far from undiscovered. The trail from the ...

The desert can be an unforgiving place. Still, there are times in your life when you crave extremes. When I headed to Moab, I wanted to be ...

Back east hemmed in by the heat, the tall buildings and trees teeming with insects, I often think of the west and its honey-colored canyons....

In 2011, I wrote in this blog about how it was time to defriend Mark Zuckerberg and surgically remove Facebook from our lives. Facebook, I...

When we were kids, our vacations were far from exotic. In Britain, vacations are called holidays. They are often endured under squally skie...

Don't let anyone ever tell you the skies of England are never blue or the sun is always obscured by clouds. Don't let anyone tell yo...

I chanced on this video the other day and it made me wonder whatever happened to Robbie Williams. There's something rather appealing abo...

I like Rochester. If feels as old as time itself and has an unassuming saltiness from the nearby estuaries and the Medway. Although...

Michael and Miranda crisscrossed the interstates together in her small gray car, from mountain valley to plain, the wind always rushing thro...

On my recent trip to England, I was glad to have made the trip to Sissinghurt Castle in Kent, because the notion of the place has always fir...