WOW!
Just watched the Men’s Half-Pipe! Sean White is every bit of his own hype and then some. WOW!
I’m truly enjoying this Winter Olympics.
Torino, Italy. I took this shot looking west across the city with the Italian Alps way off in the distance.
Which is not to say I didn’t enjoy Salt Lake City or Torino. Well… Torino. Salt Lake City was a beat down all the way around. At one point there we had worked so many consecutive hours and days that I was turning underwear and long johns inside out-outside in over again because we had no time to get clothes washed. I physically wreaked. I mean you could smell me coming. Before a live report one day I found a clothing store, bought new long johns, stripped in the dressing room, put the new underwear on and tossed the ones I had been wearing in a trash can. It was a brutal month.
Now, Torino was a mind blowing, magical experience! I spent six weeks in Italy, four covering the Olympics, one week with my mom and siblings meeting our Italian relatives and one week getting married and honeymooning! It was life-changing on a number of levels.
To this day I find myself daydreaming back in time and
I skied the Italian Alps twice on that trip. This is a the second time right after the Olympics ended. I got to stand at the bottom of the half-pipe... it's so big you would faint if you had to ski down it!. (That's the blue NBC coat I mentioned in yesterday's post.)
reliving different moments from that trip. I always smile. It was just that sweet. I wold go back in a heartbeat. If I could figure out a way to live there and make a great living i would move there. Utah, not so much. It was nice and all, but Italy was dreamlike.
If you hve never been to Italy, or France I highly recommend a trip. But stay out of the giant cities. Travel to the countryside and meet the salt-of-the-world people. If you’re lucky you might run into my people. I’ll write about them soon. They are the dearest most welcoming folks you’ll ever meet.
Peace… MR
Mike, I remember very well the Carolina Traveler pieces you did on your trip to Torino. I was jealous then, and still a little jealous now! Your family sounded amazing! Maybe one day you’ll make it back, and I’ll be able to go myself. At least the daydreams can help us make it thru our workdays!