Introduction: a former war correspondent experiences frightening vacation fun --
Republicans evolving: The Galápagos Islands, April 2003 --
Monumnetal [i.e. Monumental] generations: The national World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C., June 2004 --
Round on the ends and "Hi!" in the middle: Ohio skiing, February 2005 --
Riding to the hounds versus going to the dogs: Britain after the hunting ban, March 2005 --
My EU vacation: reading the European Constitution on a French Beach, Guadaloupe, May 2005 --
On first looking into the Airbus A380: Toulouse, June 2005 --
If you think modern life is awful, you haven't seen modern art: Venice Biennale, July 2005 --
My wife's got a gun: Brays Island Plantation, South Carolina, February 2006 --
A freedom ride through China: Spring 2006 --
Side trip up the Yangtze: June 2006 --
A horse of a different color: Kyrgyzstan, July 2006 --
Sweet-and-sour children and twice-fried parents to go: Hong Kong, December 2007 --
The big stick, or Why I voted for John McCain: USS Theodore Roosevelt, April 2008 --
White man speak with forked tongue: The Field Museum, Chicago, May 2008 --
The decline and fall of tomorrow: Disneyland, June 2008 --
A journey to-- let's not go there: Summer 2008 --
The seventy-two-hour Afghan expert: Kabul, July 2010 --
Capital gains: Washington, D.C., August 2010 --
Home unalone: New Hampshire, March 2011.
