First, a confession: One day, on a business trip some years ago, I drove my rental car through an open gate at NASCAR’s Charlotte Motor Speedway and took a couple laps as fast as I dared. I wanted to see what it was like and no one said I couldn’t.
There have been reports of speeding tickets in Missouri and Iowa and, perhaps, California. A family spokesman would neither confirm nor deny.
I’ve always been a curious fellow. My wife introduces me with the warning: “This is Andrew. He asks a lot of questions.”
Well, that’s what I’ve done for more than 60 years in journalism that took me to many interesting places, including NFL playoff locker rooms, aerial iceberg patrols over the Titanic, NHL team road trips, an iron-ore boat voyage in midwinter, and frigid night flights with a Canadian bush pilot ferrying 20 tons of fuel oil to drilling rigs suspended on ice over 5,000…
