Insights on Travel & Culture
alley cat: noun 1. a stray cat
2. an adventurous, insatiably curious person
3. verb [intransitive] to explore ~ They love to alley cat around Rome.
This fall, Mary Herbert received the Society of American Travel Writers’ Gold Award for her photographic essay on the Friday goat market in Nizwa, a centuries-old city in northern…Continue Reading
Alien spacecraft in a Star Wars landscape? A surreal setting in the Land of Mordor from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings? Neither. These are stone wings in the Bisti Badlands, a little known desert region in…Continue Reading
Believe it or not, some people still doubt that human activity has caused dramatic, irreversible changes to our climate. While climate change deniers push back against scientists who warn of existential threats to humanity, others assert that, if we don’t adjust our lifestyles and initiate remedial actions,…Continue Reading