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Tickets on Sale today! 14 months ago

Tickets to the 2010 Winter Olympics just went on sale a few hours ago:

http://www.cosport.com/

I bought tickets for Snowboarding, Biathlon, and Short-track Speed Skating. The latter sport I didn’t even know about until today. It’s like roller derby on ice, with a relay-race component built in. I was surprised at how expensive the tickets for more popular sports are. $200 for figure skating? $400 for ice hockey?! Supply and demand, I guess.

There are (relatively) cheap hostel rooms in Vancouver’s 3 HI hostels. Hotels were asking around $500, and cabins up in Whistler were more like $1000. That’s like an order of magnitude more than the hostel.

The last piece of the trifecta will be train tickets up to Vancouver. They’re not on sale until next year.

I’m so pumped!!! Especially for biathlon, which has always been a “something that is only done professionally in Europe and I only get to see on Youtube” sport.

Oct 03, 2008, 01:43PM PDT | 2 cheers


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joie de vivre is mellow

How about bicycling up to Vancouver?

It’s a fun alternate to the train.

Oct 05, 2008, 07:44AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Joe pumpkin everything

That would be fun!

That would be a blast, and we actually considered it for a minute, but in reality it wouldn’t be practical. My boys will be 6 in 2010 and I don’t think they’ll have worked their way up to a 200 miler yet!

Oct 05, 2008, 08:07AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

joie de vivre is mellow

If you do take the train

Consider driving to Everett. The section between Seattle and Everett takes an hour on the train, and maybe half that time by car, if you’re coming home in the late evening. You can park all day at Everett – you can’t park downtown. The ticket is a little cheaper, too.

Oct 05, 2008, 08:31AM PDT | Respond to this


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