Welcome in the new year with an amazing new time travel serial, starting in this issue of Cricket! They say travel broadens the mind, and in this Cricket you'll find an Indian prince traveling in search of  knowledge, a teenage girl experiencing a remote region of Saudi Arabia, camels roaming the American desert, the final episode in the story about the forced relocation of the Chickasaw Nation in the nineteenth century, and even a runaway washing machine. And, of course, an Ugly Bird Crossbird Puzzle and a new art contest. Happy New Year!