Brad Newsham’s thoughtful ode to his long relationship with Timango (“Tony”) Tocdaan, “Can I Help You — The Give and Take of a 20-Year-Friendship,” was published in Afar magazine (December/January 2010).  Tony lives in the Philippines, and Brad’s tale begins there: “Unfolding...

Nancy Hoyt Belcher’s article “The Real Alaska” was published in the March, 2010, issue of Highways Magazine.  Her story begins: Wrangell/St. Elias National Park, Alaska (photo © Nancy Hoyt Belcher) “After years of feeling jealous when friends raved about their bear sightings...

The way to a travel writer’s heart is definitely through the stomach, and Chef Marco Fiorini of Gaia Napa Valley Hotel & Spa’s restaurant must know this. His spread of pastries and fruit hit the mark in the morning, but when the staff surprised us at noon with plates of tiny puff pastries stuffed...

Rancho Margot near the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica (photo © Rancho Margot) I’d done yoga in the open air pavilion alongside the rushing Caño Negro River, soaked in a hot pool with views of the heavily wooded slopes near Arenal Volcano, and tasted the food that is grown and raised almost entirely...

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