Long-time BATW member and distinguished photographer Mark Chester (who lives in Massachusetts, but can’t give up his ties to our organization) is currently exhibiting his black-and-white Francophone photographs in pairings from “Twosomes,” the touring exhibit and companion book, at Alliance Francaise...

BATW Co-President Ginny Prior tackled fishing and oyster pulling in Apalachicola Bay, on the Florida Panhandle, in her Happy Wanderer column on Oct. 28 in Hills Newspapers.

From Georgia Hesse’s column in the Foreign Travel Club of San Francisco’s October newsletter: A SENSE OF TRAVEL . . . With Georgia Hesse One June day in 1984, I winged away from Moscow aboard a Finnair flight, headed for Helsinki en route home to San Francisco. Following a 12-day train trek...

Jules Older recently published “Tahoe Skiing Beyond Heavenly, Squaw Valley,” in the San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/23/SPM51LKGGC.DTL He’s also working on creating his first ebook, also about skiing. Working title: Skiing On The Edge: Humor, Hubris,...

Erin Caslavka racked up another “Five Places” piece in the San Francisco Chronicle on Oct. 23 – “Where to scare up some frightful fun.” Here’s the lead: “Long before Victor Frankenstein’s creature came to life in the pages of Mary Shelley’s novel, scary beasts showed up in campfire...

Tom Wilmer, Producer & Host of Audiolog the Travel Show for Central Coast NPR Affiliates, caps off a productive month of programs: Molly Blaisdell’s Fleet Week press trip: interview with Blue Angels, Canadian Snow Birds, Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf GM and more: http://kcbx.org/mp3archive/ii111019b.mp3 Interview...

Webmaster Dick Jordan, who posts book reviews on the Book Passage bookstore blog, Book(ed) Passage, recently became a member of the National Book Critics Circle. (http://bookcritics.org/about/)

“Social Media, Splashy Meeting” by Georgia Hesse In the splashy company of sharks, skates, sea stars and jellyfish, BATW members met at Pier 39’s Aquarium of the Bay on Oct. 20. The unusual evening “mixer” event starred David Perry, principal of David Perry & Associates, a communications...

Webmaster Dick Jordan posted “Halloween in San Francisco,” about the first-time-ever underwater pumpkin-carving event at Aquarium of the Bay on his blog Tales Told From The Road.  

In her Oct. 22 column, Susan’s Travels, Tours & Trips, Susan Cohn headed to Sonoma County, whose Tourism Bureau was a BATW host. Read her story in the San Mateo Daily Journal here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/69834688/10-22-11Edition (page 22)