These podcasts are from Tom Wilmer’s show- “Audiolog — The Travel Show” that airs over the three NPR affiliates serving the Central Coast from Southern Monterey County south to Santa Barbara and Ventura County (KNBX, KCBX, KSBX): The first listings are radio show podcasts generated...

Roy Stearns, Deputy Director of California State Parks, speaks at the Jan., 2010, BATW meeting at Cavallo Point. (photos © John Montgomery) Roy Stearns, the Deputy Director of the California State Parks, talked to BATW members about the California State Park system at the BATW meeting at Cavallo...

[Editor's note: Georgia Hesse's delightful story about the Walt Disney Family Museum was written especially for the BATW ezine/website.  Thank you very much, Georgia.] Walt Disney in the early 1930s (photos © Walt Disney Family Museum) When Walter Elias Disney was born on Dec. 5, 1901, did anybody...

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....

February 20, 2010 BATW’s Travel Writing and Photography Awards Presentations at Book Passage in Corte Madera 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. San Franccisco Bay Area Travel Writers and Photographers our small blue planet Earth At last the suspense will be over as BATW unveils the winners of 2010 BATW Travel...

Walt Disney Family Museum (photo © John Montgomery) BATW marked the advent of the festive season with the final meeting of its 2009 calendar at a celebratory luncheon on December 5 at the Walt Disney Family Museum, in the Presidio of San Francisco. Some 70 Bay Area travel writers and photographers were...

Actor Lorne Greene's Midcentury-Modern home and pool in Palm Springs (photo © John Montgomery) There is a unique place tucked away in the California desert where modern architecture is haute. It is a place where a group of devotees of midcentury modern design is helping a remote town with a checkered...

Cavallo Point Hosts BATW Meeting on California State Parks Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. Members Only Cavallo Point and the Golden Gate Bridge (photo © Michal Venera & Cavallo Point) While members enjoy the beautiful Cavallo Point setting, Roy Stearns, Deputy Director of Communications for California Department...

You can listen to Tom Wilmer’s KCBX radio podcast show about the Oceano Hotel in Half Moon Bay at http://kcbx.org/mp3archive/audlog_halfmoon.mp3.

Oceano Hotel Lobby (photos courtesy of Oceano Hotel) The new Oceano Hotel and Spa in Half Moon Bay — just 30 minutes from San Francisco — hosted BATW’s July 18 meeting. From the windows in the lovely Monterrey room where we met, we could see the boats at Pillar Point Harbor just across...