The United States has hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics FOUR times each. Three different cities have hosted the Summer and three different other cities have hosted the Winter. Name them… Summer: St. Louis 1904; Los Angeles 1932 and 1984; Atlanta 1996 Winter: Lake Placid 1932 and 1980; Squaw Valley 1960; Salt Lake City […]
US Sports Are Back-Finally!
March 17, 2008 by 6 Comments
After a hiatus since the Superbowl, there will actually be sports to watch on television this week with the unofficial start of the 2008 sports season as March Madness and the NCAA college basketball tournament begins. February was the worst month for sports in America with only the unwatchable NBA and the boring NHL regular […]
Where Can You Go For Cheap?
March 14, 2008 by 7 Comments
Last night I was at the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which is a college basketball post season tournament here in the US, and I was sitting next to a guy and we got to chatting about travel. He mentioned, as many people have, that the exchange rates for […]
Finding Cheap Fares
March 13, 2008 by 4 Comments
I get asked a lot about which sites I use to book travel on and where to find the best deals on airfare. This is of course a fair question but there is no one site or place where you can simply find great deals all of the time. You need to look around a […]
Top 5-Places on East Coast Mainland Australia
March 13, 2008 by 3 Comments
1. Sydney 2. Cape Tribulation 3. Byron Bay 4. Cairns 5. Surfers Paradise
The Belarus Ordeal
March 12, 2008 by 2 Comments
On a 2004 trip to Eastern Europe, my cousin and I were in Riga, Latvia and we decided that we wanted to go to Minsk, Belarus for a day or two. So we consulted our trusty Lets Go book and it told us where the Belarusian consulate was in Riga. So we got in a […]
