2022 LGT World Men's Curling Championship

A plug for curling...

 "Once again, curling viewership for the Olympic Games reached staggering numbers in North America. Now, fans can go from the easy chair to one of the best seats in the house by attending the LGT World Men’s Curling Championship in Las Vegas April 2-10, 2022.  Better yet, some of the very best men’s teams who just competed in Beijing will make their way to the Orleans Arena seeking to dethrone Olympic and three-time defending World Champ, Team Niklas Edin of Sweden.

The newly announced Draw Schedule is available for you to see when the marquis matchups will go head-to-head in round robin play.   CLICK HERE to view the schedule.  
 
Full-event and mini ticket packages are on sale now.  Single draw tickets will go on sale this Monday, February 28th. This will allow fans to purchase tickets to all sessions - as many tickets as they want to as many sessions as they want - including the playoffs and medal games. Single session tickets prices start at US$25.  For more info or to purchase tickets CLICK HERE." 

AAG-Recreation, Tourism and Sport Business Meeting on Tuesday, March 1st at 1pm EST

 If you are a member, check the zoom link details on the facebook page, or AAG website.  You will need to be a member of the American Association of Geographers for access.

Please note that in an effort to include as many members as possible, this time and link differs from the official AAG program. 

2022 AAG Annual Meeting

The 2022 AAG annual meeting will be held online from Friday, Feb. 25 – Tuesday, March 1, and will feature more than 4,500 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers. Attendees including geographers, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, and other disciplinary experts will share and discuss the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. With thousands of different papers and presentations scheduled throughout the conference, you’ll find a broad range of offerings that reflect your specific interests within geography.

FEBRUARY 25, 2022, 12:00AM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA) – MARCH 1, 2022, 11:30PM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)

One of the best things about these conferences is that publishers have great sales of books.  While the AAG in New York this is year is virtual. you can still save $$$.

Here is a shot from our Hotel room in a previous AAG meeting in Boston.

NERR 2022

 

http://www.nerrsymposium.org/

World's Bowl ...

... of Cuteness.

Annual Puppy Bowl today, check it out.

here is our cute boy.

To see my other postings on the puppy bowl, try this link.

COVID-19 TRAVEL INDUSTRY MONITOR

 A slew of graphs and figures are found here produced by the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Seems travel is a bit up, compared to the lows 2 years ago. Hotel occupancy is dropping again too.

Trade.gov also has these neat one page "fast facts" sheets that are good as infographics.  And a bit more detailed ones as the example here. 

Explore the data.

Flying into MoBay.

Curling, of course

 For a CST schedule, see this link.

From an earlier event.

and tonight...

Blue Lagoon, Iceland

 An ice storm blew through southern Illinois last night, so I just got inside after scrapping ice off the sidewalk, and applying pet-safe salt on the back steps for Bubba-Doo.

I came inside to fire up the PC to do some writing and my screen saver showed some pics from our two visits to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland.  There are tons of other hot springs in the country, but this site is probably the  best well known.

So let's get to the pictures.

The resort now boasts two hotels as well as the Lava Restaurant.

On our second visit we stayed the original hotel called the Silica Hotel.

And this is the view from our room.

and me enjoying the silica "mud" in the private lagoon.