BATW welcomes our newest Active member, Elisa Southard. Elisa, we look forward to meeting you at various BATW events.

Thanks go to Sheila O’Connor for this travel-packing tip: “I always take an electric heating coil in my bag. 

Laurie McAndish King's photo that won first prize in the Natural World category of Smithsonian magazine's photo contest (photo © Laurie McAndish King) Major congratulations are in order for Laurie McAndish King: Laurie McAndish King‘s photo won 1st place in the Natural World...

"Travels in an American Imagination" by Lee Foster Lee Foster’s award-winning travel literary book has been released as an ebook-style app by publisher IndiaNIC.  The book, Travels in an American Imagination: The Spiritual Geography of Our Time, consists of 25 essays in which Lee meditates...

Georgia Hesse and April Orcutt have both had stories published in the San Francisco Chronicle recently.  Georgia‘s charming piece “Is Paradise Always an Island?” ran on April 25, 2010, and April‘s “Loneliness the Same in Any Language” (online title “Drawing...

Congratulations to Nancy Hoyt Belcher, whose article “The Real Alaska” ran in Highways magazine in March, 2010.

BATW International Consultant,  Lakshman Ratnapala writes that tourism is in an year of transformation. —————————– I recall a former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Solomon Bandaranaike, expounding his vision of the world in an address to...

Many thanks to Dick Jordan and Sandy Sims for sharing their notes from the May, 2010, BATW meeting: the “Pictures on the Run” panel presentation by Morton Beebe, Robert Holmes, David Sanger and Glenn Steiner.

Thanks go to Lee Nelson who is posting the BATW Board of Directors’ meeting minutes on the Members Only (log-in) section of the BATW website under “Services.”

We say, “Congratulations,” again to Bill Fink, whose story ““Across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad” won the Gold Award in the “Best Newspaper Article” category of the 2010 BATW BEST Awards.  The article originally ran in the San Francisco Chronicle on Nov. 30,...