Cavallo Point Lodge (photos © Jay Gordon) [Editor's note: Cavallo Point was the site of the January, 2010, BATW monthly meeting.  Jay Gordon's article about Cavallo Point first appeared in his Examiner.com column.] San Francisco’s best view may not be in San Francisco; it could be of San Francisco....

[Editor's note: Barbara L. Steinberg's article first appeared in her Examiner.com column.] As I have mentioned before, I love to drive my old Subaru. Dear old companion . . . more than 197,000 miles. But I also enjoy sitting back, watching the world roll by in the comfort of alternative transit. Sacramento...

Renata Polt’s article about the newly reopened California of Sciences first appeared in culturevulture.net in October, 2008. The environmentally friendly and newly remodeled California Academy of Sciences (photo by John Montgomery) The newly remodeled California Academy of Sciences, located in...

Sat., Mar. 28 -- 8:30 p.m. Thanks to eco-aware Karen Misuraca for forwarding this “action” that could really make a statement: To “promote global environmental awareness,” hotels, casinos, tourist attractions, “1,000 cities and a billion people” will turn off the lights for...

Thanks to BATW Associate Member John Poimiroo for this: The Mono County Tourism Commission has a number of free admissions to the Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show (Feb. 14-15, LA Convention Center) which it offers to travel or outdoor writers