Dec
11
Carole Terwilliger Meyers
December 11, 2005 | Comments Off
Carole Terwilliger Meyers is a travel writer, photographer, writing teacher, author of eight editions of Weekend Adventures in San Francisco & Northern California, and founding publisher of Carousel Press, which publishes travel writing.
Dec
11
Harry S. Pariser
December 11, 2005 | Comments Off
Harry S. Pariser’s site includes photo essays, interviews, an interactive quiz, and a very unusual feature: Ask the Manatee Oracle.
Dec
11
David Grossman
December 11, 2005 | Comments Off
David Grossman relocated to the Bay Area from Washington, D.C. He writes a regular column on business travel for USA Today.com, is a contributor to the USA Today print edition, and has written about travel for The Boston Herald.
Oct
9
Jennifer Baljko
October 9, 2005 | Comments Off
Jennifer Baljko is an award-winning freelance writer with a diverse background in business, technology, travel and general news writing.
Oct
9
China Williams
October 9, 2005 | Comments Off
China Williams, travel writer and guidebook author, writes for Lonely Planet and also has a few projects coming out with Chronicle books. Her blog, Foggy Embrace, is here.
Oct
9
David Sanger
October 9, 2005 | Comments Off
David Sanger, photographer and writer, recently published San Francisco Bay — Portrait of an Estuary with John Hart. Travel photography, stock and assignment, SATW Travel Photographer of the Year.
Jun
4
Maxine Rose Shur
June 4, 2005 | Comments Off
Maxine Rose Shur, writer, Lowell Thomas Award winner.
Dec
18
Far Flung Fotos
December 18, 2004 | Comments Off
Looking for photos to illustrate your travel story? A friend at work came across this site of gorgeous work by photographer Michael Sheridan.
Dec
11
Suzanne Hurt and Eric Whalen
December 11, 2004 | Comments Off
Suzanne Hurt and Eric Whalen’s Wild Journalism
Nov
29
Jessica Misuraca
November 29, 2004 | Comments Off
Karen Misuraca’s daughter, Jessica Misuraca, at SonomaSites.com is a website designer and a member of BATW.
Nov
29
Dia Misuraca
November 29, 2004 | Comments Off
Karen Misuraca’s site was designed and is maintained by her daughter, Dia Misuraca at SonomaWebDesign.com.
Nov
29
Karen Misuraca
November 29, 2004 | Comments Off
Karen Misuraca Sonoma-based, specializes in travel and golf. Member BATW, SATW; golf travel writer/editor (Best Golf Resorts of the World).
Nov
14
Laurie Weed
November 14, 2004 | Comments Off
Laurie Weed’s site includes dispatches from her travels in Thailand, Nepal, and India.
Aug
1
Jay Cooke
August 1, 2004 | Comments Off
Hello to Jay Cooke, a Bay Area travel writer who I met online. Jay is the Commissioning Editor for the US-East at Lonely Planet Publications in Oakland, and a freelancer as well. He’s been a travel writer for the past ten years, contributing to a range of publications and outlets including VIA, Business Traveler, the San Francisco Examiner, Outpost, SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay-Guardian, BootsnAll and the Korea Times. Jay is also a member of the Bay Area Travel Writers, and hosts cooketravel.com.
Jul
30
Georgia Hesse
July 30, 2004 | Comments Off
Georgia Hesse is the founding travel editor of the San Francisco Examiner and now a freelance travel writer. She has visited more than 200 countries and island groups, is the author of several guidebooks and holds many awards including the French Ordre du Mrite.
Jul
19
David Laws
July 19, 2004 | Comments Off
David Laws has self-published souvenir/guide books about Steinbeck Country, Silicon Valley, and the SF Coastline. His imprint is Windy Hill Publications.
Jul
19
Jan Pehrson
July 19, 2004 | Comments Off
Jan Pehrson’s site includes some great America’s Cup 2000 action shots for you sailors. Also: Everglades wildlife, Everglades kayaking, and more.
Jun
20
Migration Photography
June 20, 2004 | Comments Off
Speaking of the North Beach Festival, I spotted a booth there with excellent travel photography. Check out Lisa Kristine’s images of indigenous people from around the world at Migration Photography.
Mar
4
Bill Zarchy
March 4, 2004 | Comments Off
Bill Zarchy, travel writer, director of photography. During his 30 years as a director of photography — most recently, on the Emmy Award-winning The West Wing Documentary Special — Bill Zarchy has shot film, video, and HDTV in two-dozen countries and three-dozen states. Over the years he has worked with ordinary people and former presidents, found ways to communicate with crews from Kyoto to Kampala to Costa Rica, overcome numbing jetlag to get the job done, and had a lot of fun despite the disorienting reality of working for weeks far from home.
Mar
1
Tara Weaver
March 1, 2004 | Comments Off
Tara Weaver writer, developmental editor.
Feb
27
Karen Misuraca
February 27, 2004 | Comments Off
Karen Misuraca travel and golf writer, author, editor.
Feb
26
Michael McCarthy
February 26, 2004 | Comments Off
Michael McCarthy founded The Intentional Traveler.
Feb
26
Rikke Jorgensen
February 26, 2004 | Comments Off
No website yet, but here’s Rikke Jorgensen’s article about Tomales and — my favorite — her story about contending with a pubic hair in her food at a French restaurant A Taste of France.
Feb
21
Mad Dog
February 21, 2004 | Comments Off
No virtual trip to SF writers’ sites is complete without a stop at Mad Dog’s bizarre and visually offensive site. But the guy can write.
Feb
19
Lone Schneider
February 19, 2004 | Comments Off
Sweet, silly, sexy, sassy: sample Lone Schneider’s tasteful black and white boudoir and portrait photography at Lolo’s Boudoir. In her other life, Lone is a writer and producer. Lone is a writer, photographer and film producer. Born in Denmark, she has a master’s degree in political science from Aalborg University Center, Denmark, and she has worked and taught in the U.S., Scandanavia and Nepal. Lone has written for magazines in Denmark and the U.S. She is a recent winner of the prestigious Tanenbaum Award for nonfiction and is currently completing a book about an ill-fated Tibetan pilgrimage.