green cars, green travel and smart spending
World’s best green hotels: While many hotels and restaurant chains around the world are just starting to eliminate plastic straws, Angama Mara, the award-winning luxury safari lodge in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara, is already celebrating one year of being virtually plastic-free. Kenya is on the short-list of countries which have outlawed the use and distribution
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Every year on September 16, Mexicans celebrate Mexican Independence Day with mariachi performances, traditional dances, food and drink fests, locally-inspired games, fireworks and more. Here’s where and how to celebrate Mexican Independence Day like a local in Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, Playa Mita, Cancun, Playa Nayarit and elsewhere along the Maya Riviera coast, including special
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The price of jet fuel is going up, and JetBlue is passing on the cost to passengers by increasing the cost of checking a bag. It’s just $5, from $25 a bag to $30 for the first bag, and from $35 to $40 for the second checked bag, each way, but that effectively raises the
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Ageless Adventurer: Although regular exercise and a balanced diet with healthy foods is the best way to stay healthy at any age, there are some tweaks you should be making as you age, including to your daily vitamin and mineral supplements. Here’s some healthy advice about what to eat in every decade of your life,
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Rimac is a small automotive technology company, based in Croatia, with big plans. They are launching a $2 Million electric supercar using the lithium batteries and systems Rimac produces for brands including Land Rover and Koenigsegg. The Rimac C-Two is a beauty, with stunning good looks power and technology, scissor doors, 1,194 HP, 230 MPH
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Some of the most beautiful gardens on the planet are the front yards or back yards of classic and historic US hotels, including some featured in films such as Citizen Kane and some designed by Frederick Law Olmstead Jr., one of the designers of New York’s Central Park. Here’s where to smell the roses coast-to-coast.
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Even if you are an experienced traveler, it’s easy to make costly travel mistakes. As the peak summer travel season gears up, here’s how to avoid some of the worst travel mistakes, and save time and stress along with saving your travel budget, because sometimes saving money costs more in the long run. It’s called
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There’s no reason to spend lots of money on travel gadgets and gear to lighten the load and keep you organized on the road. It’s easy to find free and cheap alternatives in your kitchen, bathroom, hardware store or office supply store. These are my 5 top travel hacks for free and cheap travel gadgets:
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Father’s Day is this weekend, and as always, restaurants are offering discounts and freebies to help you celebrate, and save money in the bargain. Most of these deals are only good on Sunday, June 17, 2018, but some last longer, so be sure you read the fine print. Most deals are dine-in only, can’t be
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Meet the world’s largest electric vehicle, expected to save more than 1,300 tons of CO2 emissions and 125,000 gallons of diesel fuel over the next decade. Not suprisingly, this huge dump truck also has the largest battery ever made for an electric vehicle. The world’s largest biggest electric vehicle is on the job in the
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