automotive_traveler
06-15-2008, 07:30 PM
Hi, I'm new here, visiting for the first time. My name is Richard Truesdell and I'm the editorial director of Automotive Traveler, and online-only magazine focused on automotive adventure travel, along with a companion web site. We like to think of it as being Conde Nast Traveler meets Motor Trend.
One of the stories we published in our first issue might be of interest to Saveur readers, a tour of Bordeaux done by one of our contributors, Jill Starley-Grainger, an ex-pat American living in London. It was a tour that of Bordeaux wine country (http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_atissues&Itemid=90&mode=3&vol=1&iss=1&page=34)where you're on your own, armed with a custom tour book, a pre-programmed GPS unit, and in her case, a vintage E-Type Jaguar. It's a long story, with lots of embedded links, as is our style, so rather than spoil it for you, I'll just encourage you to click on the link above to read "Grape Escape."
What brought me to Saveur today was the series of road trip stories that appear in the current issue. One is a story that's been on my to-do list for quite some time, a Duncan Hines-flavored "Adventures in Good Eating" story to Bowling Green, Kentucky. I thought that Todd Coleman and James Oseland wrote an outstanding piece and I am jealous that they beat me into print with such an engaging story. My comments about their trip and how I'll cover the same material differently can be found on my Rear View Mirror blog (http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=287&Itemid=194).
Like Saveur, we feel that we have an engaging and deep web site but our real passion are the four issues of Automotive Traveler (http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=196) we've produced thus far. I invite you to take a look and leave comments and suggestions for me here or in our feedback section or in our forums. If any of you have any suggestions for your own culinary-focused road trips, I would love to hear from you. My next trips will involve a tour I'm giving of Tuscany and Abruzzo in a vintage Alfa Romeo spyder and a tour later this fall of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Richard Truesdell
Editorial Director, Automotive Traveler
One of the stories we published in our first issue might be of interest to Saveur readers, a tour of Bordeaux done by one of our contributors, Jill Starley-Grainger, an ex-pat American living in London. It was a tour that of Bordeaux wine country (http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_atissues&Itemid=90&mode=3&vol=1&iss=1&page=34)where you're on your own, armed with a custom tour book, a pre-programmed GPS unit, and in her case, a vintage E-Type Jaguar. It's a long story, with lots of embedded links, as is our style, so rather than spoil it for you, I'll just encourage you to click on the link above to read "Grape Escape."
What brought me to Saveur today was the series of road trip stories that appear in the current issue. One is a story that's been on my to-do list for quite some time, a Duncan Hines-flavored "Adventures in Good Eating" story to Bowling Green, Kentucky. I thought that Todd Coleman and James Oseland wrote an outstanding piece and I am jealous that they beat me into print with such an engaging story. My comments about their trip and how I'll cover the same material differently can be found on my Rear View Mirror blog (http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=287&Itemid=194).
Like Saveur, we feel that we have an engaging and deep web site but our real passion are the four issues of Automotive Traveler (http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=196) we've produced thus far. I invite you to take a look and leave comments and suggestions for me here or in our feedback section or in our forums. If any of you have any suggestions for your own culinary-focused road trips, I would love to hear from you. My next trips will involve a tour I'm giving of Tuscany and Abruzzo in a vintage Alfa Romeo spyder and a tour later this fall of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Richard Truesdell
Editorial Director, Automotive Traveler