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

Congratulations to us! It's award season outside the entertainment industry too and Perceptive Travel just cleaned up in the medals race from the North American Travel Journalists Association. We were awarded the silver for "Best Travel Journalism Website" and three of our writers won individual prizes for their stories here. I got a gold and a bronze, Amy Rosen scored a gold and a silver, and Lisa TE Sonne got a silver. Wow. We think we publish good stories here, but it's nice for someone else to tell us that too. Look for links to the winners in our newsletter, on the blog, and on our Facebook page.

For what's new this month, see the links to your right or go to the new issue page.This issue we travel to the Yukon Territory of Canada, hit the other end of the hemisphere at the infamous Thieves Market in Buenos Aires, then try to get away from the tourist hordes in Ireland with new contributor Becky Garrison.

Susan Griffith returns to highlight some new and noteworthy travel books and I spin some new world music worth checking out.

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We hand out cool travel gear each month thanks to some great sponsors and for January we gave away a pair of great P^cubed adventure travel pants from Clothing Arts. Mark of Alberta, Canada will be keeping his valuable secure on the road.

This month our planned sponsor hit a product launch snag, so I'm giving away some goodies I got duplicates of for Practical Travel Gear. This month's grab bag will be a pair of travel chopsticks from Grand Trunk, a set of three Dry Organizer Sacs from Innate, and a Survival Medic kit from Adventure Medical.

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Looking for a travel story that appeared in a previous issue? Dive into the Perceptive Travel archives 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

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