My essay about tracking lemurs in Madagascar — while fighting off stinging caterpillars, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, blood-sucking leeches, spiders the size of my fist, and moths bigger than a hummingbird — is featured in the new e-book, Animal Addict’s Guide to Global Volunteer Travel. For traditionalists, the book is also available as a hard copy on Amazon.
By the way, I loved every minute of it!
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I’ll be speaking at Book Passage at the Ferry Building in SF on Monday evening (September 12th, 6:00 – 7:30) about the best ways to organize travel information for a mobile application — and the best ways to enjoy San Francisco’s waterfront.
Joining me will be historian Daniel Bacon, author of Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail. Daniel is full of fascinating information about the history of San Francisco’s waterfront; I’m reading his book now. (The book is also full of fascinating information.)
My favorite quotation so far is a response to the assertion that the 1906 earthquake and fire were some sort of divine retribution for SF’s hedonistic ways:
If, as they say, God spanked the town
For being over frisky,
Why did he burn the churches down
And spare Hotaling’s whiskey?
Please join Daniel, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Left Coast Writers, and me for this event. Wine will be served.
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