Category: Northern California

The Northern California TCC Chapter met on March 7 at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. With just over twenty in attendance it was a smaller group than normal, but everyone reported enjoying the cuisine and sharing recent travel experiences. Brigitta Ammann presented on the “Historic Route of Northern Ethiopia” which included sharing…

Read More

Samer Kawar gave an outstanding presentation on nine countries in West Africa during the September 2019 Northern California Chapter meeting at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Samer is an architect, so in addition to his great photography, he also included more than a dozen sketches of buildings, which were truly works of…

Read More

The Northern California TCC Chapter will meet on Saturday, Dec. 7, at Skates on the Bay, a waterfront seafood restaurant at the Berkeley Marina. Social hour will begin at 11 a.m., followed by lunch at noon. The address is 100 Seawall Drive, Berkeley, CA 94710; parking is free. The speaker will be Sam Wilson, a…

Read More

Trader Vic’s of Emeryville played host to 42 TCC members and guests. Our speaker was Don Koss who presented his outstanding wildlife photography from a recent journey to Tanzania. Left to right: TCC Secretary Kevin Hughes, speaker Don Koss, and Board Member Margo Bart.

Read More

Forty-nine members and their guests met at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco on March 2. Wendy Arbeit gave a presentation on her September 2018 trip to Papua New Guinea to attend the Goroka Show sing-sing. Along the way she met local tribes and villagers, ate a meal prepared in a mumu earth…

Read More

The next Northern California Chapter meeting will be on Saturday, June 1, at Trader Vic’s (Cook Room), 9 Anchor Drive in Emeryville. The event will begin with social hour at 11 a.m. followed by lunch at noon. The featured speaker will be Don Koss,. Don has been described as a “Photographer, Researcher and Explorer” by…

Read More

We hope you will be able to join us on Saturday, March 2, for our quarterly luncheon at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Here are the details: WHEN: Saturday, March 2, 2019 11:00 am – Social Hour 12:00 pm – Lunch WHERE: Basque Cultural Center 599 Railroad Avenue South San Francisco, CA…

Read More

Fifty members and guests attended the December 2018 Northern California Chapter meeting at Trader Vic’s in Emeryville. Speaker Paul Lavoie took us on a photographic tour of San Pierre & Miquelon, Laayoune, Western Sahara, and Prince Edward Island, and the limited ways to travel there. Two of our traditional restaurants — Spenger’s and the United…

Read More

Twenty-eight members met on Sept. 15 at the United Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco. Our speaker was board member Pam Barrus, who took us on a beautiful photographic guidebook tour of hiking the Thames Path, a 184-mile National Trail, starting from its source in Gloucestershire, England, and ending at the Barriers after passing through…

Read More

At the June 2018 Northern California Chapter meeting in Berkeley, Nick and Mike Bowles (Mike is from Texas) spoke about transiting the Northwest Passage, including the Inuit territories of Nunavut and Nunatsiavut. And member Lillie Echeverria was awarded her 150 Silver certificate. The next meting will be on Saturday, Sept. 15, in San Francisco. Here are the…

Read More