Bay Area Travel Writers

Join us for nibbles and drinks at the BATW Summer in the City happy hour at Merkado. This tequila and mezcal-focused Mexican restaurant is in the heart of South Beach, a block from Oracle Park, in the SOMA neighborhood. Look for your invitation via email.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Adair Family Wines Completes Sweeping Restoration of Napa Valley’s Celebrated Monument to Art and Wine CALISTOGA, CA — Adair Family Wines is proud to announce the grand reopening of Clos Pegase, the iconic Napa Valley winery that has long stood as one of the region’s most celebrated intersections of art, architecture, and winemaking.

Skip to content Avital Andrews is a California-based writer and editor whose award-winning travel and lifestyle journalism has run in the Los Angeles Times (where she was also an editor), USA Today, AAA’s Via magazine, HuffPost, Outside magazine, TripAdvisor, Sierra magazine, The Week, Business Insider, and many more.

Laura Kiniry, Don George and Robert Holmes are among the esteemed writers who will be on the faculty of the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference. The annual event is August 7-9 and features some of the best names in the travel journalism industry. John Penisten has recently added some new stories to his blog, Hawaii Travelog: https://medium.com/hawaii-travelog.

By Julia Glenister, editor and publisher of Travel The Four Corners. On a foggy morning, eight members of Bay Area Travel Writers, along with their plus-ones, gathered at the San Francisco Botanical Garden on May 30 at 9 a.m. For those traveling over the Golden Gate and Bay bridges, it seemed an ungodly hour for a Saturday morning event.

By Jim Gladstone One of San Francisco’s most famous institutions is reinventing itself. On a bright and sunny June 17, 27 BATW members and guests assembled at Pier 34 to catch a ferry to Alcatraz accompanied by Sean Kelley, the Golden Gate Parks’ Conservancy’s Vice President of Visitor Programs and Services.

We’ve extended the deadline for the Summer issue of BATW Travel Magazine to June 7 and invite you to submit your stories asap, if you haven’t already. As mentioned, it is preferred that your articles are tailored towards current trends in travel (for example, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, or a feature about up-and-coming Croatia), but any and all topics are welcome.

Renowned Photographer Bob Holmes will teach us the tricks of the trade in an instructional one hour Zoom on July 9 from 5 to 6 p.m. Bob’s remarkable career started in his native Britain in 1975 when he covered the successful British Everest Expedition for Paris Match and the London Daily Mail. The following year he visited California for the first time at the invitation of Ansel Adams and in 1979 he moved to Marin County, California where he still lives.

It’s time to celebrate those lazy, hazy (foggy?) days of summer in San Francisco with a BATW mixer at Merkado. This tequila and mezcal-focused Mexican restaurant is in the heart of South Beach, one block from Oracle Ballpark, in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. We’ll get together on Tuesday, July 21st at 5 p.m. to enjoy some great food and drink as we share our travel tales and celebrate our latest achievements. Look for your invitation via email soon.

Peninsula bookstore Kepler’s hosted a set of writing workshops, last month, as part of the Bay Area Book Festival. Travel writer and poet (and BATW board member) Lalit Kumar led one he called, “Writing the Wild: Generative Poetry on Nature, Place and Adventure” in which he read and annotated some of the great nature poets as well as some pieces from his own collection, Yosemite of My Heart.