Rockin H Ranch     July Meeting: Rockin H Ranch, Petaluma Saturday, July 16, 2011 The focus of July’s meeting will be Food & Wine as it relates to travel writing and photography. Our panel of presenters will include representatives from Local...

The BATW Board is approaching the halfway mark in its term, and here are a few of its projects in the works or already implemented: 1)   Evening meetings. The first official evening program was held in June to a standing-room-only crowd. The evening included wine tasting and hors d’oeuvres followed...

Welcome to Lauren Eastman, of Lauren Eastman & Associates, a new Associate Member. For more information about Lauren’s lifestyle public relations firm, visit www.eastmanpr.com. You can also reach her at lauren@eastmanpr.com.  

August 20th BATW Meeting “Don George on The Brave New Worlds of Travel Writing and Publishing” Silks restaurant, Mandarin Oriental hotel, San Francisco 11 a.m. Members only. We have reached maximum capacity; please e-mail Erin Caslavka to be put on the Wait List. At our August meeting, we’re fortunate...

BATW represents the best of the best travel writers. Our work appears worldwide in some of the finest magazines, newspapers, and online publications. In light of the growing need to be our own advocates, BATW has decided to showcase member works. Instead of giving out awards in 2012, BATW is going...

Our talented Webmaster, Dick Jordan, writes: The look, feel and functions of the “Members-Only” section of the BATW website changed last month after a software upgrade by MemberClicks, the company that hosts that side of the website. You still click on “Member Log-in,” but if you had previously...

BATW continues to go social! In addition to Facebook and Yahoo Groups, we now have a LinkedIn “groups” site (thanks to Karen Misuraca). To join our LinkedIn group, click here. (Please be sure to review the official BATW Social Media Protocol, below.) Plus, as Webmaster Dick Jordan reports, we’ve...

BATW member Ann Jackson recently notified us that her husband and fellow member Don Jackson just received “The President’s Call To Service Award” at a recent event, after being nominated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This national award was established in 2003 by the President’s...

Tom Wilmer was invited by Irish Tourism to cover the 100th Anniversary celebration of the RMS Titanic launch at Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, Ireland, followed by a week-long trip along the North Coast and throughout the North—an “off-the-charts, awesome trip,” he says. Since returning,...

Congrats to new member M’Liss Hinshaw, who recently published “Stop for Nostalgia and Beef Along I-5” in the San Diego Union-Tribune.