Carissa Wodehouse » Travel http://carissawodehouse.com Green living, travel, West Coast is the best coast writing portfolio Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:57:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 LA Times Winter Olympics http://carissawodehouse.com/2009/07/07/la-times-winter-olympics/ http://carissawodehouse.com/2009/07/07/la-times-winter-olympics/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:46:29 +0000 admin http://carissawodehouse.com/?p=153 A good friend invited me to Torino for the Winter Olympics in 2006, to hang out with her family. Her little sister dates Joey Cheek, the speedskater, who won gold the second night we were there. Whooee! Whirlwind introduction to fame ensued. I pitched this story to some small regional papers before Kirsten’s mom said, What are you doing starting at the bottom? Start at the TOP and work your way down. So I pitched to the LA Times, and they accepted it. Lesson learned!

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It’s slightly distorted because this is a scan of the copy printed on-site in Torino (each paper prints a local edition during special events). I also blew it out huge so you can actually read it, even at 1000pixels wide it was migraine inducing.

Here’s the cover, with a teammate:

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More here soon. I would go back to Eastern Europe at the drop of a hat. This is Mostar, in Bosnia near the border with Croatia.

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