Hurrah for our very successful BATW Awards Presentations on February 20. Updates on our website and ezine, and looking forward to our March 20 program on Branding and Marketing as well as our many exciting programs throughout 2010, with even a spectacular holiday party already scheduled. – -...

Many thanks, again, to all the judges (whose names are listed below) and to Karen Misuraca and her expert crew of Patricia Arrigoni, Lee Daley and Stephanie Levin for putting together such a fine awards contest.  Thanks also to everyone who submitted articles and photographs, even if your name didn’t...

I am delighted that Ginny Prior and Georgia Hesse have agreed to become the new BATW Editorial Board.  Both Georgia and Ginny have extensive experience as writers and editors so I am very pleased to have them available to help when editorial questions arise on the ezine/newsletter/website.  (In the...

BATW member Donna Peck wrote “Working on the Road: Myth vs. Reality” about BATW member Erin Van Rheenen.  It was featured in February on Plugin.com, an online magazine for creative professionals. – - – - – - – - – - Erin Van Rheenen at book-signing in San...

Many thanks to Sheila O’Connor for sending this helpful information: Here’s some info on a reprint market:  2camels at www.2camels.com is a website that highlights a wide range of events and festivals from around the world with an extensive arrange of articles and snippets. Editor is Paul...

Congratulations to the photography winners in the 2010 BATW Writing & Photography Awards.  Scroll down to see their beautiful photographs below: Best Newspaper or Magazine Travel Photograph: GOLD – John Montgomery [Zip Line, Honduras Island Hopping -- from the Southgate (MI) News-Herald] ...

Laurie McAndish King's "Hidden Frog" photo, a finalist in "Smithsonian" magazine's 2010 photo contest (photo © Laurie McAndish King) Major congratulations to Laurie McAndish King, whose photo titled Hidden Frog is a finalist in Smithsonian magazine’s 7th annual photo...

BATW is pleased to point out that two BATW members, Diane LeBow and April Orcutt, won awards in this year’s Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards: Women’s Travel: The best account by a woman of an encounter or experience on the road Gold : “At Home in Afghanistan” by Diane LeBow Doing...

Congratulations to Dick Jordan, who tells us that his “Tales Told From the Road on SFGate.com” is now a “Featured Blog” in the Travel category for “Community Blogs” on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website. He says it was one of the top ten SFGate.com reader-created blogs in January, 2010....

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for telling us about the exciting things Chris Baker has been doing: Christopher P. Baker recently returned from escorting two cruise-tours of Costa Rica and Panama for National Geographic Expeditions.