The Yolo County Visitors Bureau has a revamped website—www.yolocvb.org. The site provides information about Davis, Woodland, Winters and Yolo County. Interactivity is a hallmark of the new website, providing information about activities from visiting art galleries and historical sites to farm tours...

Witness the 2nd Kulinarya Competition (Filipino cook-off and food tasting) from 3-8 p.m. on 21 January 2012–free entrance. Presented by The Philippine Department of Tourism, the Kulinarya Competition will be held at Carnelian by the Bay Restaurant, One Ferry Plaza (behind Ferry Building), Embarcadero,...

Last year was a busy one for the Board: bylaws revisions, updating the member handbook, launching the From the Board column, launching the first BATW travel anthology, launching evening meetings, hosting the largest-ever Associates trade show, producing a stellar line-up of programs. The list goes on. And...

Maria Lenhart, of San Francisco, returns to the BATW fold as an Active Member. We look forward to seeing her at upcoming events.

BATW February Evening Meeting February 15, 2012 – 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Presidio Branch of the San Francisco Public Library Thanks go to Lakshman Ratnapala for presenting this stellar evening (first evening meeting of the year!) and securing all the prizes; also to Erin Caslavka for arranging the venue,...

Lee Foster has licensed his 200 worldwide travel articles at www.fostertravel.com to be used in a new travel content site for Uniglobe, one of the world’s largest travel agency systems. The Uniglobe site is called The Travel Times, www.uniglobethetraveltimes.com. Lee was selected as one of the exclusive...

Peruvian women in a religious ceremony in Lima. Photo copyright Lee Daley Lee Daley recently won a Bronze Award in the Munster 2012 Photography Competition in the People Category at the New Zealand SATW Convention. The photo (left) depicted Peruvian women in a religious ceremony in Lima. Lee is the author...

Judith Horstman, the author of two other brain books (The Scientific American Day in the Life of Your Brain [2009] and The Scientific American Brave New Brain [2010]), has just published The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain: The Neuroscience of How, When, Why and Who We Love. A fourth...

According to Al Auger, “The year 2011 has been a San Francisco travel feast, plus Northern California venues, in Siliconeer magazine. I joined with co-writer Natalie Pellolio and published articles on the SFMOMA Picasso/Impressionist exhibition and the de Young Picasso event. Left to my own vices,...

Emma and Yuri Krasov (writer and photographer, respectively) were the subject of a feature celebrating Emma’s 100th post on her Jetset Extra Insider blog. Both BATW members are seasoned world travelers and prolific contributors to Jetset Extra, an online publication featuring on-location insights.