Sand at Book Passage
Book Passage is probably the common link between all travel writers in the Bay Area. It is where we've always gone to see travel writers on tour, where we've taken classes, and attended or taught at the…
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1321 postsBack to the Printer
We are out of stock of Sand in My Bra in the U.S. (1000 waiting to be shipped to stores in Canada). That means that we are through with the first print run of 10,000. It's too soon to tell how many of…
Read more →Fog Party Fun
Thanks to everyone who braved the cold and wind and made it to Ocean Beach last night. Especially Chris and Sean from BootsnAll who drove 12 hours to be here. I had a fun time and it was really great to…
Read more →Sand Excerpt on World Hum
Many thanks to Mike Yessis and Jim Benning, the masterminds behind WorldHum.com, for excerpting a story from Sand in My Bra. World Hum is one of my favorite travel web sites and it's an honor to get to…
Read more →Sand at Easy Going
It is always a pleasure to come home to Easy Going Travel Shop & Bookstore. I might only see Audrey, Michael, Julie and Thelma once a year, but it's as familiar as if I was there last week. The only…
Read more →After Hours Networking
Some people call it networking. For me, it's all an excercise in namebuilding. What am I talking about? You know the cliche, "It's not what you know, it's who you know." Well believe me, it works. I…
Read more →Sand at Get Lost Travel Books
Doing the events for Sand in My Bra this week is every bit of a Homecoming for me. Buy your tickets, bring a date - or go stag, and dance it up. Lee Azus, owner of Get Lost Books & Maps gave me a warm…
Read more →What Bra?
So there I am in the TT bathroom transforming from jeans girl to Event Girl, and Susan asks, "Did you bring your bra?" In horror I look down and see that in fact, I am not wearing one. I had forgot that I…
Read more →Just for Laughs!
Montreal turns into total madness during their Just for Laughs comedy festival, known to be one of the the biggest in the world. Last year over 1.4 million attended the outdoor part of the festival. 600…
Read more →Sand in My Brain
Sand Francisco here I come. Here I am actually, and yes, I meant to spell it that way. I got to Travelers' Tales this morning and it's been a whirlwind of emails, trips to the printer, online searches - …
Read more →Jen on KABL Radio
I just got down to San Francisco for the Bay Area launch and Susan told me that I'm all set to be interviewed tomorrw by Mike Cleary of the KABL Food and Travel Radio Show. It's going to be interesting…
Read more →Travel Photographers
I'm up in Portland visiting with Andrea and Dale Johnson. They are both BootsnAll members and big Travelers' Tales fans that I met just over a year ago. Andrea is building her portfolio as a travel…
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