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Airports in Reno, Toronto and Dusseldorf pay tribute to Winter Olympics

02/09/10
(Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards at the world’s largest ski jump inside an airport) Airports around the world are marking this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver with special exhibits. Yesterday, the Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) opened an Olympics museum inside the terminal. This past weekend, Düsseldorf  International Airport trucked in tons of snow to make →

Olympic Museum opens at Reno-Tahoe International Airport

02/08/10
Today, February 8, 2010, is opening day for a new Olympic History Museum at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO). Designed to draw attention to efforts to bring the winter games to Reno in 2022 and to the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic →

13 million cranberries, Dusseldorf Airport’s Ski jump, and Amelia Earhart

02/05/10
This weekend would be a good time to have as my superpower the ability to travel anywhere in the world and be in several places at once. If I could, I’d stop first in Richmond, British Columbia, a short SkyTrain ride away from the Vancouver International Airport to watch 13 million (!!) locally-grown cranberries get →

Love the layover: straight to the moon from Düsseldorf Airport

01/29/10
Next weekend, February 6 and 7, 2010, visitors to the Düsseldorf International Airport will be entertained by skiers and snowboarders performing stunts and jumps on a 130-foot long ski slope set up right in the shopping arcade of the terminal. Pretty impressive by itself, but if you’re heading to Düsseldorf to see the world’s first →

Tidbits for travelers: YVR’s Olympic rings & Air New Zealand’s Skycouches

01/26/10
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics kick off in just a few weeks and Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is getting ready to welcome more than 230,000 athletes and Olympics-bound visitors. Actually, the airport has been sprucing up for quite a while. In addition to its swanky new Observation Gallery, the airport has had these giant Olympic →

Love the layover: airport adventures on Oahu and the Big Island

01/22/10
Snowstorms, mudslides, rain, more rain, and tornadoes. Sounds like a good time for a trip to Hawaii. If you go, or just want to dream a bit about going, be sure to check out the slide-show I put together for MSNBC.com – Cheap and Offbeat Oahu – about activities that are free, cheap or bit →

Fresh art at LA/Ontario Int’l Airport (ONT) & at Austin-Bergstrom Int’l Airport (AUS)

01/21/10
No time to go the museum? No problem. Plenty of airports have great art and cultural exhibits you can catch on the fly. At LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT) Art Saving Lives, put together by the non-profit Art Aids Art non-profit organization, displays elaborate beadwork, sculptures, dolls, animals and wearable accessories made by artists from South →

Found, discarded and recycled materials: art at Albany International Airport

01/18/10
New York’s Albany International Airport (ALB) may be unique among airports in having a gallery space open to the public and an on-site curator who is also an artist.  So it’s always a treat when a new exhibition kicks off. The newest one, Material Witness, is no exception. (Model City, 2009, Assorted study models, cardboard, →
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