Sun Herald Sunday Life Magazine 2003

The Sun Herald Sunday Life Magazine 13th of April, 2003: The good old days of hardcopy publishing! There was a four page article and colour spread by journalist Rosemarie Milson in the Sun Herald Sunday Life Magazine with 700,000 hard copies distributed in New South Wales and Victoria in mid April, 2003. My first website had a staggering 241,000 thousand hits on the Sunday alone followed by 71,000 thousand hits on the Monday. The Sunday edition of the magazine also saw 25,000 text and image driven pages printed out of the Andrew Hogarth Publishing website. Once again this was gigantic numbers in 2003 and it showed a real strong interest in my journey documenting Native American culture and history. I fondly remember sitting with my wife Kim Vaughan and co-author of two books relating the the Great Plains Indian Wars 1854-1890 at a Double Bay cafe in Sydney, Australia enjoying breakfast and looking through the Sun Herald Sunday Life Magazine that morning. During that recent era of the internet and cyberspace that dominated the warp speed traction world of computers with its light bulb visuals hard copy publishing was still king of the information cycle. The team of journalists that worked at the Sunday Life Magazine were the cream of the cream and their in-depth interviews with high rollers in the world of politics and entertainment was always well thought out and interesting to say the least. This was one of the main reasons that their readership numbers in New South Wales and Victoria were solid to the core. Before and after my published interview with Rosemarie the magazine highlighted articles by Hilary Clinton, The Dixie Chicks, Harry Kewell, Michael Douglas, Helena Christensen, David Gulpilil, Nigella Lawson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone and many more cool dudes to boot! The magazines budget was healthy and prior to the publishing of my story I was driven by Sage one of the magazines stock photographers from Bondi Junction to Blackheath in the Blue Mountains to have my photograph taken for the impending story. It was a fun day out having some lunch at a Blackheath cafe and then trampling across the mountain and gorge areas of the Blue Mountains with my newly acquired tree branch walking stick. Fond memories indeed of spreading the word about my adventures driving 200,000 miles across the Interstates and Highways of the United States of America from 1981-2013.