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The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network Your Guide to Healthy, Adventuresome, Soulful Living! Created by Timothy Charles Fredel & Jennifer Carolyn King

Welcome to Rugged Elegant Living!

Rugged Elegant Living is a high-end lifestyle publication created by Rugged Elegance for an ever-growing online audience of 400,000 monthly visitors and members of The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network (REIN).

Rugged Elegance is a distinctive style; a way of life that aspires to keep one's mind, body and soul in balance.

Rugged Elegant Living was created to inspire like-minded people to lead healthy, adventuresome, soulful lives. Sources of inspiration are those people, places, products, performances, prose and photographs that creators, Jennifer King & Timothy Fredel deem to be "rugged elegant."

The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network is a membership of professionals who wish to profile themselves and their business. It is also a network of individuals interested in connecting with others who share their interests in adventure, sports, culture, travel, music, art and entertainment. Likewise, it is for people looking for inspiration and the opportunity to live vicariously through others' stories and experiences.

Throughout the week, King & Fredel and our network of correspondents draw from hundreds of publications, such as The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, National Geographic to identify inspirational stories from around the world. When you join the network, you will receive a weekly email so that you don't miss our best stories.

In the same vein, we introduce you to articles written about the hotels, restaurants, shops, and services that represent the soul of the city or community, and those we choose to promote in our Rugged Elegance Companion...Your Guide to Places of Taste travel maps. It is here we also share our own commentary and personal experiences.

In addition, we include contextual links to Amazon.com and other commerce affiliates where "rugged elegant" products for purchase are suggested.

While Rugged Elegant Living serves as our community's commentary on the world of Rugged Elegance, our destination site, RuggedElegance.com offers you profiles of the selected "rugged elegant" establishments promoted in our travel guides.

Our concept is simple: Rugged Elegance provides you with the best that San Francisco -- and eventually the world -- has to offer. Our selections are based on fifteen years of life in The City and hundreds of hours spent personally visiting each of the establishments profiled in our hard copy maps and online guides. Whether you live in or are visiting San Francisco, this is the guide for you.

We invite you to take advantage of our "insider" knowledge of San Francisco by visiting RuggedElegance.com to do your research before you select a hotel for your stay, a restaurant for a special evening, a shop for that perfect gift or a service to indulge your senses.

We welcome you to print out only those profiles of establishments and adventures you want to explore. Save that extra weight in your bag -- which may have otherwise included a 200-page travel guide! Instead, take the pages you print out from RuggedElegance.com, and then use the relevant Rugged Elegance San Francisco neighborhood maps to get you there.

Please tell us what kind of stories inspire you. You are always welcome to send your tips, links and photos for consideration.

If you wish to inspire or be inspired by like-minded individuals seeking to lead more healthy, adventuresome, soulful lives in ways that are luxuriously unpretentious, this is the network for you!

We look forward to hearing from you.



Jennifer Carolyn King & Timothy Charles Fredel
Partners & Co-Founders
Rugged Elegance, LLC

Inspire and be inspired here!