Well, finally! Here we are in Boston. We arrived just in time for our raison d’etre, the event which was the genesis for this trip. We came here for a free lecture. And the lecture is the only thing free since we embarked on this journey. Our route from home and back has been and will…

Nantucket has been a delight. The shopping is epic and expensive. The lobster rolls are epic and expensive, too. The Whaling Museum was fascinating; we entered yesterday morning thinking that we’d kill an hour there, then head to lunch. We ended up going back after lunch and then woke up this morning wishing we had…

George Frederic Jones and his wife, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, were the real-life inspiration for that old expression, “keeping up with the Joneses.” As we all know, the expression describes, in a nutshell, competitive spending. The Joneses had extravagant homes in both New York and Newport and threw parties that were the talk of the…

For some unknown reason, we decided a few years ago that we needed to see as many state capitol buildings as possible. We are not knocking ourselves out or anything, but if we happen to be in a state capital, we make the effort to see the state house. Yesterday, we popped in to tour…