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.
For years, we’ve been making an annual summer pilgrimage to visit relatives who live on the coast of New Hampshire. And for years, seduced by lazy days on the water, we put off making an obvious side trip,…Continue Reading
It’s dawn in mid-summer. We’re driving slowly through Arches National Park just outside Moab, Utah. No other car is in sight. Billowy, lavender clouds drift overhead and turn incandescent as the sun rises.
To the west, enormous…Continue Reading
We can report some positive news from Florida! We recently took the new Brightline train from West Palm Beach to Miami for a Marlins’ game (The team’s state-of-the art stadium is just…Continue Reading
“There’s something terribly attractive about life in a place like this…it has a nice easy-going atmosphere, the kind of atmosphere I prefer to live in,” said the late actress Katherine Hepburn. She was speaking of tiny…Continue Reading
Those of us old enough to have vacationed in Florida in the early ’60s recall the paradise we call “Old Florida.” Back then, we stayed in beachside cottages hidden in the scrub,…Continue Reading
Here’s the perfect, packable travel jacket for women—functional yet stylish, warm yet lightweight. Best of all, this reversible space-saving garment by UbU folds to almost nothing.
Admittedly, this is not…Continue Reading
In 1969, TV anchor Walter Cronkite, citing an EPA report, declared that Chattanooga was “the dirtiest city in America.” What a difference half a century makes! Today, Chattanooga (population 176,000)…Continue Reading
When you think of Florida, sun-kissed beaches and water sports come to mind. With over 50 miles of beaches and a broad range of aquatic activities, Ft. Myers and neighboring Sanibel and Captiva islands—situated on Florida’s southwest…Continue Reading