Brook Wilkinson
As Conde Nast Traveler's consumer news correspondent, Brook covers ecotourism and adventure travel, oversees the magazine's World Savers Awards, and works with Wendy Perrin to create packages such as the annual list of Top Travel Agents and the "Dream List," a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2006. Brook wrote the inaugural installment of the magazine's popular Iconic Itineraries series. She has been a speaker at international ecotourism and adventure tourism conferences.

A true believer in travel as the best education, Brook started early and has visited 32 countries in 28 years. She's gotten chicken pox in Nova Scotia, bought a car from a woman in an Australian outback pub, walked the "Wild Wall" in China, had a baby named after her in the Peruvian Amazon, and been medivacked out of the Serengeti in Tanzania. Brook earned a degree in Sociology from Harvard University--and a certificate in open-wheel racecar driving from the Skip Barber Racing School in Lime Rock, Connecticut.

Stephan Wilkinson
Pilot, racecar driver, and nonstop road-tripper Stephan Wilkinson has been writing for Conde Nast Traveler since its very first issue (20 years ago). Now, I'm happy to announce, he'll be writing for The Perrin Post too. His weekly column "The Car Traveler" starts today.

If Steve's name rings a bell, it might be because, as Conde Nast Traveler's Automotive Correspondent, he writes our Great Drives column.  Or it might be because you've read his books Man And Machine or The Gold-Plated Porsche: How I Sank A Small Fortune Into A Used Car And Other Misadventures. Or perhaps it's because I've written about him on this blog, as has his daughter Brook.

What I love about Steve is that not only does he drive planes and sportscars, he builds them. He built a Falco F.8L (a very fast Italian two-seater) that made one of the longest flights ever flown by a homebuilt airplane: from Portland, Oregon, to Melbourne, Australia, the long way (eastbound). He also built his own Porsche, which he races when he's not too busy contributing to Popular Science, Air & Space Smithsonian, Aviation History, and ForbesLife.

Guy Martin
Senior Correspondent Guy Martin has reported on security matters for the magazine from tarmacs, air terminals,  think tanks, windowless concrete bunkers, legislatures and crisis rooms worldwide.   His specialty is talking to really mean and ugly, but knowledgeable, cops about bombs.

Barbara S. Peterson
Barbara has spent two decades reporting on the aviation industry.  She has written two books:  Blue Streak about upstart JetBlue (Portfolio), and Rapid Descent, about airline deregulation (Simon & Schuster).  Last year, she received a Lowell Thomas Award for "The Great Escape," an article about airline evacuation that ran in the November 2005 issue and people are still talking about Barbara's undercover work as an airport screener.  Her report appeared in the March 2006 issue.