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Once again, the National Park Service is offering FREE admission days in 2020 to more than 400 national parks, historic sites, monuments and landmarks it operates. On each of these significant days of celebration or commemoration, all national parks will waive entrance fees, although fees for parking and special programming remain intact. The free admission
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More than 1,500 museums, zoos, botanical gardens and other attractions in the USA will be offering FREE admission on Sat., Sept,. 21, 2019, for the Smithsonian Magazines 15th Annual Museum Day But you can’t just walk in. FREE tickets are required for Museum Day FREE admission. Each Museum Day ticket provides free admission to the ticket holder and one
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The 2019 Ocean-to-Ocean Rerun team is gearing up for its annual cross-country road trip adventure, covering 4,000 miles in 11 states, in vintage Ford Model T vehicles which are 100 years old, or more. The road trip begins June 15, 2019 in Tarrytown, NY, and ends 30 days later in Seattle. Let’s hope all 35
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The second deadly crash of a new Boeing 737 Max 8 in less than six months has prompted more than two dozen airlines to ground them, and Canada, Mexico and countries in Europe and the Mideast to deny them air space to fly over. Here’s what you need to know if you want to avoid
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Bad news for lovers of the amazing parks, historic sites and landmarks operated by the National Park Service. FREE admission days have been slashed from 16 in past years to just five in 2019 – and the first one is cancelled because of the partial US Governnment shutdown. Some NPS sites are being kept open
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Forget filling your closet or your electronics collection with Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Fill your 2018 bucket list instead. If you have the travel itch, you can save money with these great discounts on airfare, for travel through Spring 2019 and beyond. Be aware of restrictions, including baggage limitations and black-out dates, and
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Get ready to share the roads, skies, rails and waterways this Thanksgiving with more people than in more than a dozen years. The AAA projects 54.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving 2018 via car, plane, train, ferry or cruise ship. That’s a 4.8 percent increase over last
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Colorado’s ski and snowboard resorts have spent the summer and fall upgrading the experience with new chairlifts, restaurants, expanded terrain, including new heli-skiing terrain, and discount ticket packages. There’s something for everybody to enjoy, whether you are a beginner, expert or in between. Life should be downhill in winter, so here’s what’s new in Colorado
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WOW what an airfare deal to Europe! WOW air is offering $129 one-way fares from all 13 airports it serves in the USA to 11 cities in Europe. You must purchase a round-trip fare, which means $258, which is around $500 less than such a ticket would cost from most other airlines. The discount fares
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Pocahontas is back in the news. Like Senator Elizabeth Warren, who claims to have Native American heritage, the real Pocahontas was a remarkable woman. Here is the bio of the real Pocahontas, via the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian, following the 400th anniversary in 2017 of her death: She was
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