On Facebook yesterday Spud Hilton, the recently retired travel editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, posted the news that the paper was discontinuing its Travel section.
Travel writing flourishes in the Bay Area as nowhere else in the United States, and the Chronicle Travel section was both a reflection of and a contributor to that phenomenon. If you were a travel writer, one of the highlights of any visit to San Francisco was picking up the Chronicle and reading the Travel section. Imagining the paper without a Travel section is like picturing the city without cable cars.
