In today’s new post on Substack, the history of pepper, the Amazon, heat waves, an Irish whodunnit, the future of prediction, more.

Plus, a photo quiz. Can you name this national capital?

Check out my weekend reading suggestions on S&W on Substack:

csandw.substack.com/p/weekend-reading-5…

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

There’s a travel column every Tuesday on Common Sense & Whiskey on Substack. In past weeks we’ve been to the Arctic, Easter Island and Vietnam, among other places. Here’s Part Two of a story I wrote a long time ago, told with the somewhat wider eyes of relative youth. If you missed Part One last week, you might want to start with that. New today, read Part Two here.

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

Every Saturday I take a look back at the week just past. In this week’s entry we talk about a Chinese aircraft carrier that kicked up an online storm, how the world it got isn’t the world the Biden administration expected, we’ll have short takes from Cambodia, Iran, Scotland and Uganda, we’ll take a look at the MAGA voter, and finish with a look back at Covid predictions, and how they turned out.

Read it here: https://csandw.substack.com/p/what-just-happened-17

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

On Fridays I suggest worthwhile weekend reading that’s guaranteed to improve your posture, your online dating prospects, and make you an all around better person. Read a dozen articles, lose five pounds.

Here is yesterday’s column: https://csandw.substack.com/p/weekend-reading-5af

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

On Fridays I suggest worthwhile weekend reading that’s guaranteed to improve your posture, your online dating prospects, and make you an all around better person. Read a dozen articles, lose five pounds.

https://csandw.substack.com/p/worthwhile-weekend-reading

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

On Fridays I suggest worthwhile weekend reading that’s guaranteed to improve your posture, your online dating prospects, and make you an all around better person. Read a dozen articles, lose five pounds.

https://csandw.substack.com/p/fine-weekend-reading-814

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

These are the last days of Common Sense and Whiskey here on WordPress. Common Sense and Whiskey has moved to Substack. All new content is now published there. I don’t want to lose you when I leave WordPress, so please take just a minute to click here and subscribe (subscriptions start at free) to CS&W on Substack.

This week’s travel column on Common Sense and Whiskey: a visit to Finland and Russia a few summers ago.

In this weekend’s post, we looked back at the week in review:

Subscribers to the new CS&W get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

Subscribers get three columns a week: normally, a travel story every Tuesday, weekend reading recommendations on Fridays and a look at the week just past on Saturdays. Plus, all subscriptions, even the free ones, come with 50% off the pre-shipping price on every order from Earthphotos.com.

In the coming days I’ll be moving the web address, so that CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com will link to CS&W on Substack and not WordPress. Please make the move with me today. Thanks for reading Common Sense and Whiskey.

There are several new posts for you to review at Common Sense and Whiskey on Substack. All new content that used to be here has now moved there.

I’ll be taking down this WordPress site before long, but I don’t want to lose the subscribers who have been with me for a long time here on WordPress. Please take a moment now to click this link to my new site and get yourself a new free (or paid) subscription.

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Most weeks the new CS&W works like this: On Tuesday, a travel column. On Friday, some suggested articles for interesting weekend reading, and on Saturday a look back at the past week. This week’s travel article, posted yesterday, recounts a safari In the Zambian Bush.

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