Elisa Southard is expanding her platform by adapting her middle name, Sasa, to her mission of developing young Smart And Savvy Adventurers. Elisa Sasa is now licensed as a Tour Guide by the DCRA, District of Columbia Regulatory Agency, and has signed on to conduct an April, 2012 Washington DC-New York...

New member M’Liss Hinshaw recently published her story “Six Essential Things to Pack for Vacation”–in addition to your smartphone, laptop and iPad–on AmateurTraveler.com.

Congratulations go to Emma Krasov, whose blog, Art and Entertain Me, reached 100,000 pageviews in March.      

Susan Cohn’s latest story for the San Mateo Daily Journal takes her to the Hotel Monaco Denver, where she discovers gold(fish). Check it out here: http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?type=lifestyle&title=Susan’s%20Travels%20Tours%20+%20Trips&id=229716  

From Anthology Chair Elisa Southard: You’ve waited long enough! From the Call for Entries to the back-cover copy, the judging, compiling and creating of BATW’s first anthology has been as much an adventure as the stories themselves. Now it’s time to say Bravo! and Brava! to the members whose tales...

Membership Chair Tom Wilmer is pleased to report that three new members have recently joined our organization: Judy Jacobs (Active), Kerrie Walters, Grants Pass VCB (Associate) and Kristina Simonsen, RedAwning.com, Inc. (Associate). We look forward to seeing our new colleagues at the next BATW event.

David Brower Center, Berkeley BATW April Meeting “Entrepreneurial Travel Publishing” – Presented by Lee Foster  David Brower Center, Berkeley Sat., April 21, 2012 – 10 a.m. Site for the meeting is the remarkable and new David Brower Center (www.browercenter.org), one of the “greenest”...

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.