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Some thoughts about turkeys, another great year for BATW, your membership renewal, and best wishes for the holidays.

Welcome to our many new members, including: Active Members: Ben Narasin Bill Friar Nancy Hoyt Belcher Elgy Gillespie Judith Horstman Kathryn Abajian Nikki Goth Itoi Camille Cusumano Associate Members: Carrie Head Provisional Members: Hilary Kaiser Again, welcome to all of you.  We look forward to getting...

December 5, 2009, BATW Event: Our Holiday Party at the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco 11 a.m. Members Only — No Guests (sorry) (Details are in the emails you’ve already received.) Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco The brand new Walt Disney Family Museum...

EDITOR’S NOTE: I realize these maps “underlap” the Table of Contents on the right side, but that was the only way I could make the maps large enough for you to read them.  The Walt Disney Family Museum is hard to find so I hope these maps (imperfect as they are) will help.  Please...

Many thanks to Karen Misuraca for keeping us up to date with the 2010 BATW Best and Planet Earth Awards.  Here’s her note: Your 2010 BATW Best and Planet Earth submissions are with the judges! BATW Awards and Planet Earth Awards The travel writing and photography submissions for 2010 BATW Best...

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It drives your website editor crazy that airlines offer “lower” tickets and then add hidden charges like a “checked-bag fee.”  (First they tried to get us to reduce our carry-ons — then they started charging us for checked bags.  I’m getting dizzy.)  Cheap Tickets...

Thanks to Karen Misuraca, who asks, “Are you hip about the acronyms used in texting, IMs, chat rooms, e-mail, Twitter, etc?”  Here is a glossary of online slang and acronyms to help you come across as hot stuff online. “HAGO, GTR” http://www.web-friend.com/help/lingo/chatslang.html P.S.:...

Because of all the holidays, the deadline for announcement submissions for the January ezine is Tuesday, December 15th. Please format the Subject Line of your email like this: “Ezine: Your Name — Subject”