2012 has gotten off to a great start, with a lovely presentation on Sausalito’s sister-city, Viña del Mar, Chile, held at the Spinnaker restaurant in downtown Sausalito. Kudos to Lee Daley for coordinating the event, and for working with the presenters who were in attendance. Over the course of the...

Joining our ranks as an Active Member is San Francisco-based Mary Jean Pramik. We look forward to welcoming Mary Jean in person at our next meeting.

Wear your green and celebrate the launch of BATW’s Writer’s Anthology at Book Passage, in Corte Madera, on March 17. More details to come as we approach the date.

"Travels in An American Imagination" by Lee Foster Lee Foster alerts BATW members to what he believes is a revolutionary new development in ebook publishing. You can now publish your content in your own ebooks, with relative ease, in all the viable e-stores and keep 100% of the net sale. Lee...

Street Signs, Italy copyright Kathryn Abajian   Join Kathryn Abajian in Italy May 27–June 2, 2012, for The Heart of Memoir Writing Workshop. “We stay in a lovely medieval hill town in the secluded Abruzzo region. Our focus: travel, food, and memoir essay writing, cultural talks, local wines...

Some of BATW member Alex Leviton’s accomplishments the past few months: She 1.  Wrote two articles for the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20111018-californias-wine-country-without-the-wine http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20111020-slow-umbria 2.  Wrote the intro to the Lonely Planet book...

Erin Caslavka’s article for Rejuvenate Meetings (a publication for faith-based meeting planners) recently posted online. It came about as a result of a press trip she took in October to Luther Country in Germany. Here’s a link: http://www.rejuvenatemeetings.com/2012/01/12/the-land-of-luther/  

George Medovoy recently wrote about the Eastern Townships of Quebec for the Victorville Daily Press in Southern California (Dec. 27, 2011). Located just across the border from Vermont, the Townships are home to two lovely inns on either end of Lake Massawippi, Auberge Ripplecove & Spa and Manoir...

BATW President Ginny Prior dishes on weddings, California history and local wineries in the Sonoma Valley in her January 20 column for Hills Newspapers.  

Here’s the U.N. bulletin, with input from Lakshman Ratnapala, BATW’s in-house tourism expert: UNITED NATIONS, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) – The United Nations, which commemorated the birth of the world’s seven billionth baby last October, is predicting the arrival of the one billionth tourist...