Archive for Category: "Olympics"
Olympics News, Arizona Nature & Arizona Travel Secrets – Hour 3 – PGW Radio
On Saturday, February 20, 2010, Peter was broadcasting from The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. Featured guests from this hour include: Mike Killeen, Olympic reporter for CTV, breaking down the top stories of this year’s Winter Games in Vancouver; Angelica Elliot, curator of wildflowers for Desert Botanical Garden, discussing the incredible color and diversity of desert [...]
Olympics News, Arizona Nature & Arizona Travel Secrets - Hour 3 - PGW Radio Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadVancouver 2010 Blog: Final Days in Vancouver
It’s our final two days in Vancouver, which didn’t seem possible. We just got here! But that’s always the way it is. You arrive and relish the fact there are six days stretching out ahead of you, and then poof! It’s over. Trying to hold onto time never works.
Vancouver 2010 Blog: Olympics Mittens & Olympics Souvenirs
While standing in a long, long line to enter the Olympic superstore, Theresa Corigliano questions her sanity and ruminates on the hot-ticket tchotchkes of the 2010 Games. Yes, I want to buy souvenirs, I admit it. Marie has a point. Souvenirs only mean something to people if they care about where you’ve been. A very [...]
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Blog: Olympics Security, Currency & Access
In her next Olympic blog, Theresa Corigliano encounters the oddities of a heavily secured host city, and discovers a new kind of currency that only comes out at the Games. It’s not just me. Apparently, all manner of Olympic fans are perturbed. Why is the Olympic cauldron, lit by the Great One, Wayne Gretzky, being [...]
Plane Delayed as Mitt Romney Attacked Over Reclined Seat
Another day, another passenger thrown off a plane. The man in question wasn’t overweight, requesting orange juice, or harboring a screaming child. This time, a frenetic flier was kicked off for taking a swing at Mitt Romney. The 2008 presidential hopeful and his wife were on an Air Canada flight bound for Los Angeles, returning [...]
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Blog: Travel Tips on Accommodations, Event Tickets and Lessons Learned
Thinking about attending the Winter or Summer Olympics in the future? Theresa Corigliano reports on the lessons learned from months of planning this once-in-a-lifetime experience. I have always had luck renting accommodations off vacation Web sites. Months ago, when I was despondent that I was not going to be able to find anywhere to stay [...]
Vancouver 2010 Olympics Blog: Whistler Skiing & Vancouver Skating, In One Long Day
Theresa Corigliano reports on day two of her Olympic adventures in Vancouver and Whistler, and shares some lessons learned from her first time at the Games. I am here to tell you that sometimes, being really excited about the Olympics sometimes makes you stupid. More confessions a bit later. It all worked out, but today [...]
Vancouver 2010 Blog: Opening Ceremony Anticipation
We picked up new and improved tickets for the Opening Ceremonies, which was a very good thing indeed. We moved from upper deck to lower bowl, and the seats were awesome. I gave the extra pair of seats I had to two lovely Irish lads we met at the Raincity Grill the night before—I didn’t [...]
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