green cars, green travel and smart spending
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 via car, plane, train, ferry or cruise ship. That’s a 4.8 percent increase over last year,
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Once again this year, national chain restaurants are thanking our veterans and active military members on Veterans Day with FREE or discounted food or services on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. Also, on Veterans Day, admission to National Parks is FREE for everyone, whether or not you are a veteran or active military member. Free admission is to all
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Stay in one of these historic hotels, where some “spirited” guests may have checked out, but never leave. From Hawaii to New York, from a former convent to hotels that are adjacent to battlegrounds and one that was once a morgue, many of these hotels report that former guests that continue to haunt the halls
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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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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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