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Archive for July, 2009

Reporting Plane Crashes, The Best of Bend and Culinary Adventures – Hour 1 – PGW Radio

Reporting Plane Crashes, The Best of Bend and Culinary Adventures – Hour 1 – PGW Radio

On July 25, Peter was broadcasting his radio show from McMenamins Old St. Francis School Hotel in Bend, Oregon. Guests from the first hour include: Travel writer, pilot and author Patrick Smith, weighing in on how the media’s reporting of plane crashes is all wrong. Freelance travel writer (and Bend local) John Gottberg Anderson, discussing [...]

Greener Travel, Odd Travel and Secrets of Bend Oregon – Hour 2 – PGW Radio

Greener Travel, Odd Travel and Secrets of Bend Oregon – Hour 2 – PGW Radio

On July 25, Peter was broadcasting his radio show from McMenamins Old St. Francis School Hotel in Bend, Oregon. Guests from the second hour include: Costas Christ, global travel editor for National Geographic Adventure, discussing how we are all benefiting from a new way of thinking and traveling. Kevin Max, publisher of Bend’s 1859 Magazine, [...]

Cruise News, Pacific Northwest Adventures, Overseas Calls and Bend Highlights – Hour 3 – PGW Radio

Cruise News, Pacific Northwest Adventures, Overseas Calls and Bend Highlights – Hour 3 – PGW Radio

On July 25, Peter was broadcasting his radio show from McMenamins Old St. Francis School Hotel in Bend, Oregon. Guests from the third hour include: Melissa Paloti of CruiseCritic.com, updating you on pirates, cruise deals and more. Gary Lewis, outdoor reporter for the Bend Bulletin, telling you all the things you can do in a [...]

Weekly International Travel News Roundup

Weekly International Travel News Roundup

Miss anything this week on PeterGreenberg.com? You can find anything and everything you need to know about the world of travel in this week’s international travel news roundup. On tap this week are microbrews in Bend, Oregon, topless sunbathing in France, and money-saving deals in Las Vegas. And that’s just the beginning. Read on to [...]

Ask the Locals Travel Guide: Bend, Oregon

Ask the Locals Travel Guide: Bend, Oregon

Where in the world is Peter Greenberg? Why, he’s in Bend, Oregon, broadcasting his radio show from the McMenamins Old St. Francis School Hotel, a quirky hotel/pub/movie theater housed in a former Catholic school. (In fact, Peter broadcast from the Rambler Ambassador Room, named after the nuns’ first car, a 1968 Dodge Rambler Ambassador.) Bend, [...]

Hiking Safety

Now that summer is here, it’s time to head outside. But whether you’re an experienced hiker or new to the great outdoors, take proper precautions or you may spend the rest of the season stuck inside.

Two Bizarre Hotel Murders Leave Authorities Puzzled

Two Bizarre Hotel Murders Leave Authorities Puzzled

A Seattle sound engineer was shot and killed during an unusual incident last Friday night at a motel in rural Twisp, Washington. Tom Pfaeffle, 49, was apparently using his card key to enter what he thought was his hotel room at the Blue Spruce Motel, but it turned out to be occupied by a sleeping [...]

Traveling the Demilitarized Zone Between North Korea and South Korea

Traveling the Demilitarized Zone Between North Korea and South Korea

Most visitors who travel to South Korea will run through a list of  required tourist attractions: temples, monuments and karaoke bars. But the more curious ones will also add a very special day trip to their itinerary—one that is a stark reminder that in at least one part of the world, a cold war still [...]