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All aboard for this sale on train travel. It’s a great alternative to flying or driving this summer or fall. Train travel is a great way to explore the USA at your own pace. Stay in one spot for a day or more, and get back on the train for your next destination. Take Amtrak
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The iconic Ford Bronco is returning after a quarter-century, as a part of Ford’s all-new outdoor lifestyle brand of 4×4 adventure SUVs. And it’s being introduced on national TV on July 13, across multiple networks, channels and streaming services. It’s the first time ever prime-time product reveal for Ford, and maybe for any automotive company.
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Jolta is poised to give a jolt to the electric vehicle industry as the first dealership for all things EV, including cars and motorcycles, scooters and bikes, on-premises charging stations and installation services for home or office. It’s an entirely new concept in mobility, opening Fall 2020 in Miami, the first of a planned national
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If you’ve been dreaming of getting away, consider the Caribbean, where islands are re-opening to tourism and offering special programs to entice visitors back, plus new procedures designed to keep everybody safe and healthy. Here’s what’s happening on six popular island destinations, alphabetically, because that’s the only fair way, with information from the Caribbean Tourism
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JetBlue isn’t about to change its name to JetGreen, but new sustainability efforts are enhancing its reputation as an eco-friendly brand with a commitment to the environment. Starting in July 2020, Jetblue becomes the first US airline to pledge to offset all the carbon produced by its domestic flights. To do this, it has partnered
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Country music superstar Garth Brooks is set for a concert event at 300 drive-in theaters across North America, on Saturday, June 27, 2020. It’s being promoted as the largest ever one-night show to play at outdoor theaters across the United States and Canada. Drive-in theaters are having a renaissance, and with many traditional concert venues
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BMW has just produced its five millionth vehicle in the USA, in its sprawling factory in Spartanburg, North Carolina, which produces some half-million vehicles a year, mostly for sale in the USA, but also for export, including to Germany, where BMW is based. Car number five million is a Toronto Red Metallic BMW X5 M
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Delta is suspending service to eleven airports in the United States and one in Canada starting in late June. The airports all are in what’s called “secondary” cities, which means smaller airports within 90 minutes of larger ones. Delta says the decision is part of its attempt to help lower costs as it navigates the
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For months now, I have been spammed almost daily by Jasmine Winget. Each time it is from a different email address, so blocking Jasmine Winget is useless because she – or her spammer network, most likely a bot – sends me the next spam email from a different address tomorrow or next week. Spammer Jasmine
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What’s that saying – everything old is new again. Drive-in theaters are back in style, experiencing a renaissance as one of the few entertainment destinations you can visit outside the home and maintain social distancing. There are more than 300 open-air theaters in the USA, many of them open since the 1950s, before the advent
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