This is not one of those late Chritsmas letters, defining many personal successes achieved in the past year! But there has been news since I last blogged: Travel Connoisseur ceased publication on October 31st -- such a fitting date!! It took me some time to gather my wits about me and move on, but I have done that. Many new PR/New media projects are on the horizon, and many new journeys await. Part of my re-adjustment comes from something I have always believed -- that when one door closes, another opens.

The door opening in this case, has to do with my further adjustment of moving from print to emerging media, though I still have articles to write in high end resort print publications. However, I have become more and more convinced that more visitors read blogs, online articles, and watch vidcasts than do longer print articles in magazines. To that end, I am putting an article of mine online as a White Paper. It deals with my forecasting of Fractional Trends for 2008. The article will be live very soon.

In the coming year, I will be more involved in vidcasting, internet articles, site visit reports, and other areas involved in new media. I will keep you apprised!

In the meantime, just to show you I am alive and well and living in snowy Utah, here is a picture taken today, Christmas. I think I look OK, given the fact that it was 3 above zero and I did not have a hat! We Californians are such a hardy lot!