Dick Jordan a New Member of the Bay Area Travel Writers Group

Dick Jordan has become a an active member of the Bay Area Travel Writers, a not-for-profit, professional association of writers and photographers with outstanding achievements in travel journalism. These professionals share their unique stories in newspapers, magazines, books, internet publications, and travel industry publications.

In June he joined Left Coast Writers, a prestigious group of well-known as well as new writers of all genres, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, sci-fi, and travel, which holds its monthly "salon" meetings at one of America's premier independent book stores, Book Passage, in Corte Madera.

Dick will be attending the Bay Area Travel Writers Photojournalism conference in San Francisco this Saturday, and (along with photographer, Joel Grey, well-known for his co-starring performance with Liza Minelli in the movie Cabaret) will be participating in the annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference next week.

Problem Reading Dick Jordan's Bay Model Story?

If you had a problem accessing and reading Dick Jordan's Bay Model story at the Contra Costa Times Web site, try this link: http://www.contracostatimes.com/travel/ci_12940604

NEWS FLASH! Prowl the Presidio with Stan on Monday AND Tuesday

Due to overwhelming interest (25 hikers have "signed up" so far), Stan Walker has offered to lead a hike through the Presidio of San Francisco (followed by lunch out) on both Monday (August 3) and Tuesday (August 4) of this coming week. If you're interested in going, contact him via e-mail (swalkrn@comcast.net) or by phone (415 331-2803) and let him know which day you'll be coming (so he expects you and can make a restaurant reservation for the group,if necessary).

Dick Jordan's Bay Model Travel Story Published

Dick Jordan's "staycation" travel story about the Bay Model in Sausalito was posted to the Contra Costa Times Travel Section Web site on Friday, July 31st, as well as the sites for the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune. (The "hard copy" should be in the Sunday Travel section of the CCT and Marin I-J, and probably the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune, too).

The paper used two photos: One Dick took of a school group using a game called The Water Challenge. The other (shown at the left) was taken by Ranger Keley Stock of Dick leading a "Trekking the Model" tour (offered to the general public once or twice a month by rangers or docents).