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May is Military Appreciation Month, and a good time to remind ecoXplorer followers that current and retired US Military and Gold Star Families now are entitled to FREE admission year-round to national parks and historic sites and other federal lands. It’s a new lifetime perk, authorized in 2022 by the Biden Administration. New lifetime passes
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Celebrate National Park Week with FREE admission and FREE events in many of the 424 national parks in the USA. National Park Week 2023 is April 22-30, and encourages all of us to discover something new about their national parks and monuments, from the Statue of Liberty in NYC to Yosemite in California. With at least one
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There are five FREE admission days to national parks, monuments and historic sites in 2023, one less than in 2022, including on Earth Day, which is also the start of National Park Week. There are more than 400 National Park Service sites nationwide, with at least one in every state. The fee-free days continue a
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Club Med and Snowbasin have agreed that the all-inclusive international chain will not build a ski property at the Utah resort after all. It’s not a real surprise to us ski industry insiders, who have long known about construction delays due to environmental issues, including water and electric power. Snowbasin is one of my favorite
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United Airlines plans to fly to 114 international cities this summer, with new destinations and increased service on popular routes between several US cities and Europe and Scandanavia, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the Middle East. It’s a 25 percent increase in flights versus last year, to meet a pent-up demand for travel outside the
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Stay aboard a docked cruise ship while you attend a Formula 1 race nearby, and get perks both aboard ship and at the race. This includes exclusive insider access like the Pit Lane Walk, a Guided Track Tour on a flatbed truck, Formula 1 personnel appearances, Grandstand tickets and more. The combo is being offered
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Low-cost airline Norse Atlantic Airways is launching new routes from four cities in the USA to London with an airfare sale starting at just $159 one-way. The new flights are from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Boston to London Gatwick, beginning in June 2023. That’s in addition to routes announced recently from New
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March is Women’s History Month. Here are the top women’s history destinations in the USA where you can celebrate the role of women in history. The sites include famous statues of women, the Suffrage Movement which gave women the right to vote 100 years ago, and a memorial to women in the military. Many women’s
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United Airlines and Star Alliance partner Air Canada are adding additional trans-border codeshare flights for summer 2023, including new routes between the US and Canada. That will include a new United flight between Washington-Dulles and Calgary, and a new Air Canada flight between Washington-Dulles and Vancouver. The increased codeshare agreement means the two carriers will
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Low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines is the latest to take steps to make it easier for families to sit together on flights without extra fees – joining full-service United, which has announced a similar policy. Frontier will automatically seat a child under the age of 14 with a parent or other adult companion before the check-in
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