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NEWS
So her show is not on TLC (The Learning Channel), like those of her agent’s other clients, but Wyoming Chronicle – airs on Wyoming PBS Friday nights at 7:30. Although this is Dina's first TV gig – the five minutes her and the condo she shares with husband Brian were on HGTV doesn’t really count as on-camera experience – she's slowly getting over her nerves. Although she's still terribly embarassed to have stumbled over the name Dina went before the camera quiet nervous the interview
went great … until she was signing off. Dina stumbled over the name of the show. Of course. The subject of this first taping? Wyoming’s wild horses. The guests were Wheatland-based horse trainer Scott Mantle and Scott Fluer, part of the BLM’s Wyoming Wild Horse Adoption Program.
As one of four hosts of the bi-weekly Wyoming Chronicle, Dina is always on the lookout for interesting people to interview. As the head producer Geoff O’Gara describes the show: “Wyoming Chronicle. Faces and voices of Wyoming, discussing history, politics, music, health care, the economy, literature, and the characters who make this a state like no other. World leaders and next-door neighbors. Conversation that’s meaningful, funny, smart.”
Next up for Dina on Wyoming Chronicle? Sheridan-based veternarian Ted Vlahos who fits animals with prostheses and Tim Kellogg, Meeteetse's own cowboy chocolatier.
Doing Wyoming Chronicle doesn’t mean Dina has stopped writing. Upcoming print and web pieces include:
Southwest Escape: Hiking the Arizona Trail in the December 2010 issue of Sunset’s southwest edition
Mountain Day Trip: Butte in the July 2010 issue of Sunset's MountainWest edition
Mountain Day Trip: Laramie in the September 2010 issue of Sunset's MountainWest edition
Belize: Reef and Rainforest on TravelSquire.com
Great Escape: Lake Chelan in the July 2010 issue of AAA Via’s MountainWest edition
En Suite: Cayo Espanto on TravelSquire.com
Adventure Racing in the February issue of GO, the in-flight magazine of AirTran Airways
Replete.com: Dina is in the process of writing all the copy for this soon-to-launch website. She wishes she lived closer to Manhattan Beach so she could eat some of what she is writing about.
Rare Property: Tranquliity Bay in the March issue of Caribbean Trave & Life
Marrakech: Enjoy tanjine with a side of trekking in this mysterious Moroccan city on TravelSquire.com.
TRAVELS
Upcoming
Vancouver
February 2010 While enjoying the Olympic Women's Super G, Dina will be learning all about Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen's bid for the 2018 Games as well as the winter sports competitions already slated to be held in Bavaria over the next few years.Elk Mountains Grand Traverse
March 27, 2010 Dina will race, on skis, with a partner 42-miles from Crested Butte to Aspen, Colorado.Recent
Las Vegas, Nevada
CityCenter is the self-proclaimed "Capital of the New World." Despite its hubris, it's pretty hot, with multiple hotels and spas (one of which is so big it offers an hour-long "hotel hiking" fitness class), dozens of restaurants, Cirque du Soleil's Viva Elvis and enough shopping Dina could have gotten herself in serious trouble. But she didn't. She did check out each of the five hotel and as many of the restaurants as her appetite allowed. Unfortunately, she also wasted 90 minutes of her life on Viva Elvis.Scottsdale, Arizona
Dina checked in on many of the spas and resorts in and around Scottsdale, making sure to get in some urban hiking between treatments.The Arizona Trail
Using Superior, Arizona as a base, Dina hiked 70-some miles of the 817-mile long trail. She hiked the entire Superstition Wilderness as well as Alamo Canyon, White Canyon and Reavis Canyon. In the latter, she camped under a chestnut tree at an long-ago abandoned ranch. Despite a raging campfire, she was unable to roast any of the chestnuts that littered the ground.Stockholm, Sweden
With a native Stockholmer as guide and little more than three hours of weak daylight daily, Dina did her best to hit every coffee shop and museum in the city, which is spread over 14 islands. Of course she also checked in on a few spas.Morocco
Despite breaking her collarbone mid-way through this week-long trip, Dina can write about the country’s markets and culinary scene, including various cooking classes and intriguing restaurants (Rick’s Café in Casablanca is nothing like the tourist trap you’d expect; quite classy in fact). While in Morocco, Dina stayed at La Maison Arabe and Amanjena in Marrakech, Palais Jamai in Fez and Kenzi Tower in Casablanca. She also visited Ana Yela in Marrakech. She took cooking classes at La Maison Arabe, Terres d’Amanar, and Jnane Tamsna.Belize
Dina stayed at Cayo Espanto and Tranquility Bay in Ambergris Caye and the recently renovated Machaca Hill Rainforest Canopy Lodge in the far south of the country. While in Belize, Dina did Scuba, hiked, mountain biked, had nuts thrown at her by howler moneys, visited Mayan ruins and a modern Mayan cacao farm (where she learned how to turn the pods into chocolate), swam in caves, went on a rainforest safari, and ate lots of wonderful food.Nevis
Dina’s visit to Nevis happily coincided with the annual Nevis Triathlon. She managed to find a team that needed a biker. Pre- and post-race, Dina explored the former sugarcane plantations that are now boutique hotels and bed & breakfasts. She also hiked up Mt. Nevis, which got its name from Columbus, who thought the clouds hugging its 3,200-foot high summit were snow.
