Who Else Is Going to RunYour Photos-or Mine?
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, November, 2004 by Erik Torkels
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One of Budget Travel's revolutionary ideas has always been to "write about your vacation, not our own." It's an admirable goal-other travel magazines would clearly rather indulge their own literary pretensions when what readers really want is to know where to go.
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And yet, in this issue we're running a story about a road trip that I took with my friend Shawnda. It's definitely about my trip, not yours, but what I'm doing-and what we've begun doing throughout the magazine, where appropriate-is including the personal side of things. Not for our own enjoyment, but because it's one more way to tell you where to travel. If I write that the long drive to the Racetrack at Death Valley is worth the trouble, that's useful. If I tell you that I'll never forget lying on the cobblestone-like surface of the dry lake bed, that I can still feel ...
