Viva Brighton Issue #78 August 2019

BITS AND BOGS
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MAGAZINE OF THE MONTH: AMERICAN TRAILS
We’ve had some brilliant road
trips in our time. Probably the
best of them was in Norway,
driving our hire car along the
Atlantic Highway, driving over
the sea across endless bridges
that connected strung-out
beautiful islands. There was
one hour where we must
have stopped the car seven or
eight times simply to shout in
amazement at the countryside
around us. America is the place
where we seem to have done most of these trips,
though. Durango to Telluride in Colorado, up a
long valley for mile after mile with only one stop
light in the whole 110 mile journey. Then there
was the trip in Oregon from the coast to Bend,
high up on the plain. Oh, the trip down Route
1 in California was pretty special, too, all for the
cost of a hire car and some cheap motels.
Which is why our recommendation this month
is a magazine called American Trails. Published
from Sweden and originally only in Swedish, the
English language version is now available here,
the US, France and Ireland.
It’s as near to a road trip as a
magazine can be. Each issue picks
up on interesting places across the
US, and then photographs them
and writes about them delightfully.
The current issue focuses on
13 different locations. There’s a
city guide to Washington DC, a
feature on the Marathon Motor
works in Nashville, an actual road
trip across four states over sixteen
days, a look at the Las Vegas arts
district, a photo feature on Seattle and the northwest
coast and much more.
American Trails is one of those magazines you
can read right through, pick up and put down or
use as a reference point. It looks great and, for
those of us in Brighton who talk secretly about
these things, smells good, too. With a little luck,
our holiday later this year will be staying with
friends in Colorado again. American Trails is
going to help us decide the route we’ll take to
get there.
Martin Skelton, Magazine Brighton
TOILET GRAFFITO #55
We’re not quite sure what type of movement this
sitter is referring to, but – if it’s a road trip – we
couldn’t agree more. Wherever the mood takes
you, remember to take your copy of VB along for
the ride. Life is better in motion.
But where is it?
Last month’s answer:
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
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