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.

JEFF GREENWALD’S article, Passing Through but Leaving a Lasting Impression, about his work and what it means to be an ethical traveler, was published in the March 13, 2007 edition of The New York Times.

“Travel often turns my expectations upside down. In 1999, I visited Iran with a small group of Americans to watch a total eclipse of the sun. On the afternoon of the event, I found myself alone in Esfahan’s vast Khomeini Square: one American among 50,000 Iranians…Aldous Huxley was right. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” To read more, click here.