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Congratulation! Merci, merci, merd!!! When you're a graphic designer, it's sometimes hard to find a "well-designed-interesting-content-worth subscribing-to-magazine." Blue is IT. Bon voyage a tous! Denis Dulude 2Rebels fonts Montreal, CANADA In a world filled with the glossy trash of mass market "out door" magazines, and the glossy expense of nice photo mags (a la National Geographic-about $8, is it?) I can't tell you just HOW MUCH I value Blue and how refreshing it is to open up a magazine and not worry about the putrid perfume-ad stench, 10 million subscription and solicitation cards jumping out at you, and those incredibly obnoxious fold-out covers. Blue seems like 'In oasis of backward type, randomly placed photographs and different fonts in the same article. I want to thank you-it's an amazingly great (and terribly interesting!) magazine. Jesse Bunning Olympia, WA PS Has anyone ever read Raygun? It's eerily similar, but about music ... Recycling is good but not enough. Help save some fish and some trees. Use less glazed, white paper and only biodegrad able inks! Anonymous Portland, OR Congratulations for making your dream a reality and a damn good magazine. From the moment I discovered Blu� I steadi ly gained appreciation for its creative aesthetics and insight ful writing. I share your dismay with mainstream travel publi cations today. I find they cater to the timid, two-weeks-a-year type who considers buying new gear the greatest risk involved in adventure travel. I have so many friends that really need Blue, just to stay on top of this new brand of traveling as a lifestyle, not as an escape. I think that you agree that travelers have the opportunity to do .more today than ever before. There is also a need for a consciousness beneath the fun & excitement. Your magazine is laying the foundation by focusing on the traveler as part of a new global community, perhaps as ambassadors of sorts. I wholeheartedly hope that your publi cation can educate and invigorate other fellow travelers as it has for me. Greg Lucas Chapel Hill, NC Blue is the kick-butt magazine on bookstore shelves. Not only are the articles exciting but I could spend hours just flipping through and looking at the photos. Larysa Kosel Cincinnati, OH Just wanted to congratulate you on your first issue of Blue. I very much enjoyed your editorial, the Chernobyl reportage and the cover. Donald Schneider Directeur Artistique VOGUE Paris After reading Amy Schrier's introduction in the premiere issue, I bought Blue. I couldn't help but feel I was somehow taking part in an extraordinary adventure. I am excited by its focus on ulend[ingJ meaning to the journey" as Rory Nugent put it ("From A to B: One Traveler's Process"). The jour ney inward has always been more i�teresting to me than the journey outward. This is the kind of quest that all travelers should set out on, the questioning of what significance the journey has to one's self. To seek out the corners of the globe that travel brochures would never lead one to and to take from these places a sense of what it is to go beyond oneself is not only admirable, but essen tial. It is from this perspective that we can truly see where one fits, or doesn't fit, in the grand scheme. Michael Lisboa Tucson, AZ Finally a travel magazine that caters specifically to my realm of experi ence. I was beginning to think I was flying solo in an unmarketable niche of the travel industry. Being part of the twenty something generation I have a much different outlook on traditional "vacations." I associate a vacation with a family trip across country before the inception of the minivan. Definitely a painful memory! I have used my precious two-week allowance to explore the world as much as possible. You see, for 50 weeks a year I work in a historical, posh, five-star resort that caters to the whims of the superrich. Therefore, my two weeks of solitude and discovery bring me places no normal person would care to go. At least this is what I thought until I saw your magazine. Now with knowledge and insight from Blue, it will be much easier to choose an off the-map destination that must be explored. How about introducing some articles geared toward the solo traveler? There is nothing like traveling alone to really discover a culture as well as your true self. Mark Mantegna West Palm Beach, FL