We were lost, which you might not think is easy when you are downtown in a city with more than a million people. ...more

November 11, 2009

It's just not the same. The Olympics I mean. I remember the first Olympics I saw on the television - the 1964 Summer Olympics from Japan. There were Bob Hayes, the World's Fastest Human, and Joe Frazier, the young boxer. My dad, an Air Force officer, taught me to root against the Russians, East Germans and any Soviet bloc country because they were "commies." These were the countries that wanted America to fail, he said. They hated the way we flaunted our freedom, our capitalist ways and the way we want others to be more like us. Don't be mad at the athletes, just their governments, he said. ...more

August 19, 2008

Travelers heading to these rewarding destinations will be greeted by a host of new museums, improved infrastructure, and special events. Here's what to expect if you visit. ...more

February 3, 2008

One day it wasn't there; the next day it was. In August 1961, East Germany erected the barbed-wire barricade that quickly was transformed into the Berlin Wall to staunch the flow of East Germans escaping to the West. ...more

October 25, 2007