Traveling Tips

Fear of flying isn’t an uncommon thing, around one in five of us being affected by aerophobia to some extent. It is a condition that causes fear and panic, and in sever cases vomiting at the mention or sight of any form of aviation travel. In the past this wasn’t a real big problem, but [...]

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Reading an old Time report (in a waiting room, they need to update their reading material!) that Mexican drug traffickers are using American national parks and forests for marijuana plantations. Reading the piece shed light on a mystery that has intrigued me since 1994. On November 2 of that year, my wife, Cathy, and I [...]

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Let me tell you what happened to me in Amsterdam the other day. I drive there from my home in the southern Netherlands, near Maastricht, for my interview at 11. I get there at 10 and park in a huge lot, nearly empty. From my film can I dump out all the eligible euro muntjes [...]

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