green cars, green travel and smart spending
Party hearty in Lake Charles, the family-friendly Mardi Gras destination, where kids get their own parade, and there’s another parade for classic cars and hot rods. It’s just as much fun, and a lot less expensive, than Mardi Gras in nearby New Orleans. One of the traditions of Mardi Gras in Lake Charles is the
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Food for thought: Americans will eat 1.35 Billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Weekend, enough to circle the Earth three times, and the favorite dipping sauce is ranch dressing. That’s according to The National Chicken Council annual Chicken Wing Report, and includes wings eaten in restaurants and at home. That figure is up 1.5%, or 20
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Get your next meal with a side order of delicious scenery. Restaurants with scenic views get top ratings from their customers, especially when the food and service is as great as the view. Every year, OpenTable lists the 100 most scenic restaurants in the USA. There are winners in nearly every US state, and nearly
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Pass the mustard! The spicy topping remains the favorite hot dog topping in the USA. Did we really need an annual survey by a fast food chain to tell us that? Apparently so. For the fourth straight year, mustard tops the topping list, according to the five-year-old weiner-centric chain JJ’s Red Hots, made famous on
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Our National Parks are a national treasure. Celebrate them all during National Parks Week, April 15 to 23, with FREE admission on the two weekends and enjoy some of more than 84 million acres of scenery and 27,000 historic structures, from the Statue of Liberty to Yellowstone. Public lands are facing a tough four years,
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Eating out is important for family memories, as well as helping teach kids proper table manners. These are the top kid-friendly restaurants in five top US cities, which also happen to be top vacation destinations for families. There are no fast-food or national fast casual chains on this list, only the best kid-friendly restaurants chosen
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More than 30 national chain restaurants are offering FREE entrees, appetizers, coffee or desserts to current and retired US military on Veterans Day, Wed., Nov. 11, 2015, plus discounts for family members. Keep in mind these Veterans appreciation offers require proof of military service. That includes arriving in uniform, showing a photo of yourself in
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Those tiny bottles of booze are big profits for airlines, which are raking in the dough from selling those single-serve bottles of liquor and wine during flights. Profits from in-flight sales of booze was more than $43 million in a recent four month period. That’s not nearly as much as they earned from checked baggage
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National restaurant chains are offering Mother’s Day freebies that include a free dessert or free entree. Here’s a list, alphabetically, of more than 60 US restaurant chains offering meal deals to give mom the chance to avoid cooking and cleaning on Mother’s Day. NOTE This list is from 2014. See the 2017 list of Mother’s
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