They have (half) the money
Last week I officially accepted my accommodation proposal for next February's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. It wasn't the ideal situation for me, at least financially, but it was the only real option I had without doing a lot of research on rooms in the Anterselva area, something that I didn't have time to do and also, which from reading other pieces, wouldn't have yielded me any better results. So, on Monday morning, while my laundry was drying in the Wolfeboro laundromat, I made my way to TD Bank, where I spoke with Donna (she and Tammy have facilitated the majority of my Olympic wire transfers) and started the process of getting the first payment for my accommodations to the Milan-Cortina Organizing Committee. Over the years, this has been an interesting process. For Sochi, they actually accepted the funds in US dollars, which was surprisingly easy given the problems I'd have in the future. For PyeongChang in 2018, I was able to send my funds in South Korean cur...