GOING PLACES -- Editor’s Note

-- The Editors

In the mid 1990s, the Daily Pilot began a feature called On Vacation,

in which readers take their hometown newspaper with them on trips, snap

photos with it and send the pictures to the newsroom for publication.

The feature, which runs about once a week and sometimes twice, has

taken on a life of its own, even prompting us to spin off a related

feature called Travel Tales, which runs in our Sunday edition.

The success of the vacation photos is evident in several ways. Readers

have sent thousands of pictures of themselves and the Daily Pilot from

around the globe -- Bali, China, Rome, Paris, Machu Picchu, the Bahamas

and Africa, to name a few. There’s also the shorter and more typical

trips such as Hawaii, Yosemite and even Catalina Island and Big Bear

Lake.

The loud and clear message is that our readers love to travel, and

we’d like to think they love their hometown paper just as much.

Because of that, we are launching a new and -- we hope -- annual

travel section called Going Places. We hope this section provides tips,

ideas and, best of all, locations that our readers will find useful for

their vagabond ways.

Enjoy and bon voyage.