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RON JAMES
publisher/executive editor

CHEERS

uch has happened since Wine Dine & Travel Maga-
zine premiered three months ago. We have traveled
extensively – from the great ports of the Saint Lawrence
Seaway and New England to India and Nepal, and our
adventures in all those places will be chronicled in
Mfuture issues. As exciting as our travels have been, the
reception of our first issue featuring Amsterdam was perhaps just as rewarding.
Ron James is the "wine and food guy." He is a We were thrilled by the hundreds of enthusiastic comments we received about
nationaly award-winning journalist., television the magazine. Also gratifying
producer and radio personality. He is a pioneer was fact that more than 100,000
in online journalism with the first major online travel enthusiasts from almost ev-
city publication, San Diego Magazine. He helped ery country on the planet enjoyed
implement Time Warner's Road Runner network it from their homes and work. We
and led the San Diego Union-Tribune's online
editorial efforts for nearly a decade. The native thank those of you who loved the
Californian's nationally syndicated wine and magazine and passed the link to
food columns have appeared in newspapers and friends and colleagues.
magazines around the world. He is passionate Despite the travel schedule, we
about great wine and food and enthusiastically
enjoys them every day! managed to birth a new edition
of the magazine which is 16 pages
thicker and we think even better.
In it we welcome three newcom-
MARY JAMES ers to our family of contributors
Maribeth Mellin, Priscilla Lister
and Nancy Carol Carter. All of our
publisher/editor contributors have three things in common: They love travel, they are veteran
journalists and they are our friends. We hope you appreciate them as much as
we do.
We also hope you enjoy our in-depth foray into Great Britain. This exciting
destination rich with history and beauty is a favorite of most travel writers,
especially our friends and fellow travelers Sharon and Carl Larsen. They contrib-
uted four stories including visits to the historic Churchill War Rooms and the
real Downton Abbey.
Other features travel the globe to explore Idaho’s Sawtooth wilderness, share
adventures in Kauai, sample great eats in Norway and view the stunning land-
scape of Antarctica.
While you’re enjoying this issue’s entertaining trip around the world, we’ll be
working on the next issue. In it we’ll share adventures in India and Nepal as
Mary Hellman James is an award-winning San well as a transit the Panama Canal as it celebrates its centenary. In between our
Diego journalist and editor. After a 29-year- editorial work, we’ll squeeze in an Asian cruise with stops in Hong Kong, Viet
career with the San Diego Union-Tribune, includ- Nam, Thailand and Singapore.
ing 13 years as Home and Garden editor, James
currently is a freelance garden writer and a Enjoy the magazine and Bon Voyage wherever you may travel.
columnist for San Diego Home-Garden/Lifestyles
magazine. She also is executive editor of Cali-
fornia Garden, the award-winning 102-year-old Ron & Mary James
magazine published by the San Diego Floral
Association. She and her husband, Ron James,
travel extensively. Upcoming this year is a an
Asian cruise and a first visit to the Black Sea and
the Holy Land.

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