Dec
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San Francisco Waterfront: Bridge to Ballpark
December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
The new mobile guide to San Francisco’s waterfront, San Francisco Waterfront: Bridge to Ballpark, is now available on iTunes. Travel writer Suzanne Rodriguez and I (Laurie McAndish King) co-developed it, and we both enjoyed the process immensely.
The app runs on Apple iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads, and is a witty guide packed with history, photos, and information about the best things to see and do along San Francisco’s waterfront.
Please tell your friends (shameless self promotion, here we go), and consider downloading a few copies; it’s an excellent holiday gift for friends and colleagues: smart, fun, high-quality, relevant, well-written, easy to give, and inexpensive (just $2.99).
Dec
7
Ocean Views Photography Contest
December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
| December 19, 2010 |
Waves and weather, feeding and breeding, tropical and temperate reefs, seashores and sunken vessels … if you have a great ocean photo, check out the Ocean Views contest. Entries are due by December 20; top prize is a one-week dive trip.
Dec
7
A Book Lover’s San Francisco
December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I enjoyed Gregory Dicum’s December 1st New York Times article about literature as sustenance in San Francisco. It is, and yeah, that’s why we love this city.
Dec
7
Lost Angel Walkabout
December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
Linda Ballou’s Lost Angel Walkabout: One Traveler’s Tales
Dec
7
In the Lap of the Gods
December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Booklist gave Li Miao Lovett’s book a starred review, calling it a powerful first novel.
“China is all around us, from the clothes and furniture we buy to the food we eat. Yet much of the culture is still a mystery. In the Lap of the Gods sheds light on modern China through the story of a widower and the baby girl he rescues from the Yangtze.”
Check it out by reading an excerpt from In the Lap of the Gods.
Acclaim for In the Lap of the Gods
“A moving farewell to the old, more humane way of life.”
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Dec
7
Win a trip to China
December 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
| December 31, 2010 |
Samsonite Luggage is giving away a “Luxury trip for two to China and a set of xSpace luggage” in celebration of the company’s 100th birthday. Visit the Samsonite website and enter by December 31st.
Dec
7
Win a trip to Ireland
December 7, 2010 | 9 Comments
Discover Ireland is giving away a customized “$5,000 dream vacation to Ireland.” You have to become a Facebook fan in order to enter (interesting marketing idea), but hey—how hard is that to do?
Dec
7
Travel Classics West Writers Contest
December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment
| December 1, 2010 |
Congratulations to Michael Shapiro, winner of the Travel Classics West 2009 Writers Contest for Best Travel Story on Arizona. Michael’s story, “Beneath the Rim: A Journey Down the Colorado River with John Wesley Powell,” won him a 2-night stay at Arizona Biltmore’s new Ocatilla “hotel-within-a-hotel” in Phoenix, plus a spa treatment of his choice, and dinner at the Biltmore’s Frank and Albert’s restaurant.
The next Travel Classics contest, Best Travel Story on Quebec, will be open to attendees of Travel Classics Quebec 2010. Contest deadline is December 1, 2010. Prize includes airfare, accommodations and rental car for four days in Quebec and Montreal.