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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.
The automobile was born on August 26, 1885. That is the day Gottlieb Daimler filed a patent for his ‘riding car’, the world’s first vehicle with an internal combustion engine. Dr. Carl Benz registered a patent for a similar device six months earlier, with three wheels and large enough to carry passengers. So you
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Bertha Benz was the first documented woman driver, of the first documented road trip, and the first woman we would describe today as an automotive marketing pro or influencer. Her pioneering 65 mile drive on August 5, 1888 between home and her mother’s house became a media sensation and helped drive sales of her husband’s
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Scam Alert: Vacations are not the time to relax your personal safety online. Avoid identity theft before, during and after a vacation by taking these simple steps for internet security. Everyday, it seems, we hear about hacking, doxxing, identity theft or some other invasion of our digital privacy. Here’s how to protect your online life
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Since our mental health is connected to our physical well-being, these FREE fitness apps will help motivate you whether or not you are avoiding the gym at home or hotel gyms when you are on the road. These free fitness apps offer at-home exercises including yoga, measure your walks and hikes, and meditation to help
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Copenhagen Airport is testing green energy storage with the installation of a large battery to capture wind, solar energy, making it one of the first airports in the world to take this step towards sustainability. It’s a test project to demonstrate how airports of the future can manage and store renewable energy to achieve net-zero emissions requirements.
It’s a long flight, and you can’t sleep well on a plane, especially in cramped economy seats, and you need to keep the kids quiet, too. That means in-flight entertainment – movies, music and games – on a system easy to use. While you wouldn’t choose an airline solely on the basis of what the
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It was a day that would change the world by setting it in motion. Happy 137th birthday to the automobile, born January 29, 1886, when German engineer Dr. Carl Benz applied for a patent on his “gas-powered vehicle”. Later the same year and independently of Benz, German engineer and tinkerer Gottlieb Daimler built his motorized
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Hertz is dumping 20,000 EVs, including Tesla models from its rental fleet, and replacing them with more gas-powered vehicles. Hertz is selling off Tesla 3 and Y models for as little as $20,000. The decision was driven (pun intended) by problems renters had driving unfamiliar EVs, which have faster acceleration than gas-powered vehicles, and therefore
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Turkey and China are dropping visa requirements for tourists, including from the USA and Canada, in 2024, to visit for as long as 90 days Making travel easier is likely to boost tourism, along with political and economic ties with the countries whose passport holders no longer need to apply for a visa to visit.
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