Perceptive Travel Web Magazine Stories

Welcome to the new issue of Perceptive Travel webzine, home to the best travel stories from wandering book authors.

No big announcements this month, just more great travel stories, travel books, and world music.

We welcome Canadian guidebook author Carolyn Heller this issue, making her debut traveling to the end of the train line in northern Ontario. Lea Aschkenas is back with a tale of creepy crawlies and constant rain along the Amazon River in Ecuador. I wake things up with a story on coffee farms and drinking the good stuff in Central America and Colombia.

William Caverlee reviews several new and noteworthy travel books on food, kayaking, and big African animals. Graham Reid is back to spin some new world music albums worth checking out, including Afro-soul, Indo-jazz, and desert blues.

WIN SOME STUFF!

We hand out cool travel gear or other prizes each month and in April reader John H. of Memphis won hiking shoes from Wolverine.

This month we're giving away a whole set of lightweight gear from Sea to Summit. The winner gets a Travelling Light Day Pack, Travelling Light See Pouches, Travelling Light Travel Wallet and Travelling Light Laundry bag. The Ultra-Sil Day Pack pictured above is one of my favorites. It packs down into a mini stuff sack.

To win, you'll have to watch your inbox for our newsletter or follow us on Facebook. If you're not on our monthly e-mail newsletter list, sign up by clicking on the box at the top right.

Looking for a travel story that appeared in a previous issue? Dive into the Perceptive Travel back issues where you can find everything that has appeared here since our debut. We have them categorized by region too, as in Europe Travel Stories or Canada and USA Travel Stories.

If you're looking for writer's guidelines, want to reach our well-traveled readers through advertising, or have a suggestion or rant, see the Contact Us page. For some new material between issues, see the Perceptive Travel Blog.

Happy trails!

- Tim Leffel, Editor

Perceptive Travel

Welcome to the new issue of Perceptive Travel webzine, home to the best travel stories from wandering book authors.