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Happy new year! Welcome to the new issue of Perceptive Travel webzine, home to the best travel stories from wandering book authors.
We're kicking off 2012—and our 5th anniversary—with another round of great traveling stories and some reviews of world music and travel books worth checking out. See the links to your right or go to the new issue page.
This issue we travel to Kenya, the land of acronym-laden Protestant faiths. Then, this being the apocolyptic year of 2012, we kick off the year visiting the land of the Maya. Joshua Berman revisits a race to catch the sunrise over Tikal, while I race around Chiapas, Mexico in a van.
William Caverlee returns to highlight some new and noteworthy travel books and Graham Reid reviews some new world music releases from Brazil, Nigeria, and the Congo by way of Belgium.
WIN SOME STUFF!
We hand out some cool travel gear each month thanks to some great sponsors and for December we had two winners of bags from Guerilla Packs. Lil M. of South Carolina scored the carry-on Airporter backpack and James P. of New Mexico got the larger Voltij backpack. They entered, they won. Simple as that.
On the month of our 5th anniversary, we're happy to be giving away something made specifically for adventurous travelers: P^cubed adventure travel pants from Clothing Arts. I've tried out many pairs of travel pants over the years and these are the best I've seen for keeping your valuables safe. (See my full P^cubed pants review here.) They're tough as nails and water-resistant too. Clothing Arts is generously offering to ship these worldwide as well, so if you live outside the U.S., this is your month!
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Happy trails!
- Tim Leffel, Editor
- by Joshua Berman
- by Jessica Lee
- by Tim Leffel
- by Graham Reid
- by William Caverlee
