Best Moments at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference

The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference has come and gone and now that I’ve just about recovered from all the fun, here are my highlights. It was quite a time.

1. Alison Wright on her horrific accident in Laos and amazing recovery. Read her new book, Learning to Breathe. 2. Simon Winchester meeting his mentor, James Morris, for the first time, discovering a woman, soon to be Jan. 3. Isabel Allende on following her instincts. Did she really say that?! Only those present will know what I mean…sorry! 4. How do you spell karaoke? Battle between the “Wail of the Tormented” and Pauline Frommer’s exquisite voice. Who knew? And she says her kids don’t like her to sing!!?? 5. Don George’s moving eulogy and moment of silence to honor Linnea Larson, Tim Cahill’s wife, killed in a recent car crash. 6. Tim Cahill’s talk about founding Outside magazine, and why he left. Management mistreated his co-workers, the women. 7. My morning sessions on the Personal Essay. Lots of talent, lots of laughs, rewarding for me and for others (I trust). 8. Seeing fine old friends like the plump and expecting Jen Leo, “the other Larry” Larry Bleiberg, John Flinn, Don George, Tim Cahill, Tom Swick, Georgia Hesse, Catharine Hamm, Amanda Jones, Jim Benning, Bob Holmes, Simon Winchester, Isabel Allende, Phil Cousineau, George Olson, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Michael Shapiro, Janis Cooke Newman, Pauline Frommer, Alison Wright…the list goes on and on. Don’t miss it next year!

One Response to Best Moments at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference

  1. Nancy Brown What a Trip August 28, 2008 at 8:42 pm #

    Hi Larry,
    A friend of mine, Pat Jenkins from Uptake.com, is interested in hosting a luncheon for Bay Area travel bloggers.

    I have the list of participants from BP, but it doesn’t say locations. Do you know any local travel bloggers that I should be contacting?

    What about Left Coast Writers? I’m a member of Bay Area Travel writers, but I don’t know the bloggers.

    By the way, on the advice of the blogging panelists, I have moved from my Bootsnall site to my own URL, http:www.nancydbrown.com. Stop by and check out the review I wrote about the BP Conference, http://www.nancydbrown.com/journal/2008/8/26/my-dinner-with-travel-writer-tim-cahill.html

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