Archive for September 2022

Brilliant sherbet-drenched sunsets, undulating peaks along the horizon, swaying prairie grasses punctuated with mountains of enormous lava rock. Alpine, Texas, is a remote, high-desert gem, 90 miles north of Big Bend National Park and Mexico. When you take a deep breath at the 4,475-foot elevation, the air is clean and sweet, the mornings and evenings…

Prohibition in Iceland was enacted in 1915, when alcohol was generally frowned upon, especially beer, for political reasons. Iceland was involved in a struggle for independence from Denmark at the time, and Icelanders strongly associated beer with Danish lifestyles. Beer was not the “patriotic” drink of choice since Danes drank eight times as much alcohol…