Glen Putman is a Los Altos, California freelance writer and photographer specializing in articles on travel, food and wine, golf, and skiing. He also consults on strategy for marketing and public relations programs.He has traveled throughout Asia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and the United States. Glen once bought a pair of wooden shoes for a Dutch girl in Amsterdam and he has run the track at the ancient Olympic site at Delphi. He rode an elephant through a rain forest in Thailand and skied down snowcapped Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. In South Africa he fell in love with a beautiful leopard, and he thinks he once did an after-midnight samba in Brazil. One day in New Mexico, he snow skied, played a round of golf and two sets of tennis, all before the cocktail hour...and then wrote about it.Glen was Travel Editor for GENTRY for 19 years . His feature articles and photos have also been published in American Airlines’ American Way, Arizona Daily Star, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Caviar Affair, California Home & Design, Diversion, Forbes FYI, Oakland Tribune, Private Clubs, Robb Report, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury-News, San Jose Magazine, San Jose Business Journal, Southwest Airlines’ Spirit, Wine Enthusiast, and other publications.In the 32nd Annual Awards competition of the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club, Glen’s travel columns for GENTRY won First Place for Magazine Feature Columns in 2008. He won the same award for his work in 2007. Previously Glen was Manager of Corporate Communications for United Airlines and Vice President of Ogilvy & Mather Public Relations.