BATW Webmaster Dick Jordan notes that MemberClicks offers a free iPhone app from the iTunes App Store that lets BATW members access the “Members Only” area of the BATW website. The app also works on the iPad and iPod Touch. The app lets you do the following: View and edit your own Profile in the...

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...

[Many thanks to Laurie McAndish King who's letting us re-post her excellent sources of information about "Best Online Travel Resources."  This originally ran in both Examiner.com and on Laurie's own terrific website, Travel Writers News.] Best Online Travel Resources: Know Before You Go Laurie McAndish...

[Ginny Prior's article "Adding Animals to Vacation Accommodations" appeared in the Hill Newspapers in the East Bay and on contracostatimes.com on April 9, 2009] I’ve never understood the attraction of pet-friendly hotels. I go on vacation to get away from my pet. Like Ginny's cat, website editor...

Many thanks to Laurie McAndish King and her Travel Writers’ News for this information about Yapta, a website for tracking airline and hotel prices.  Their spiel is: Yapta is intended to help you get a handle on fluctuating travel prices so that you know when to “buy low.” Yapta conducts daily...

Georgia Hesse speaks to BATW members (photos by John Montgomery) The witty, earnest, funny, practical, inspiring and petite, Georgia Hesse gave a talk at our BATW meeting Jan.17. Georgia was one of the original journalists to give birth to newspaper and magazine travel writing. Those were the “Glory...