A follow-up to "Holidays in hell" collects classic travel pieces written throughout the author's post-retirement years, a period marked by his haphazard journeys with and without family to such regions as China, Kyrgyzstan, and America.

"The follow-up to the classic Holidays in Hell."

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.