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With peak spring an summer travel seasons about to heat up, it’s a smart move to bypass long and frustrating airport TSA security and US Custom lines with one of the special VIP passes available to ordinary travelers like you and me. If you travel more than a couple of times a year, the
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Life should be downhill in winter, and there’s plenty of great snow left to ski and ride this season. Simplify your spring skiing or snowboarding vacation with one of these FREE apps that track your runs, speed and vertical, even your kids and friends, and allow you to share the info. Warning – These apps
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Interest in Pocahontas peaks around Thanksgiving, because of her role in helping the first European settlers in the early 1600s. She was a remarkable woman, daughter of the leader of the powerful Powhatan Confederacy, which
dominated the coastal mid-Atlantic region at the time.
What a concept! The future will be here before you know it, and so will some of the concept cars manufacturers have been showing at auto shows around the world. Every carmaker spends millions on R&D, and concepts are an important preview of what’s down the road for design and technology, arriving in our driveways
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Scam Alert: Is that advertised summer rental a great find or an expensive fraud? These tips will protect your budget and save your vacation from being ruined by scammers, and other disappointments. Fraudsters often lift a legitimate ad from websites like Craigslist and add a bargain-basement rental price and a fake email address to reel
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Tickets are now on sale for a new, faster, and more affordable way to travel between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It’s a high-speed train. Starting in April, Eurostar begins whisking passengers between London to Amsterdam in just three hours, via the underwater Channel Tunnel, affectionally nicknamed the “Chunnel”, that already speeds passengers between London
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How and when you make your hotel reservation, and check in, can help you score a hotel room upgrade, even get on the the VIP or Club Floor. Here are the top hotel hacks to get a better room without paying the price: Reservation Matters Reservation codes include the source of your booking. You are
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When Saudi Arabia announced recently it would let women drive – finally – the historic decision to grant driver’s licenses to women was headline news around the world. Now, Nissan is helping some of the millions of Saudi women who have been only passengers in their lifetimes learn safe driving skills, with a surprise group
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Travel tip: If you need a new U. S. Passport, or Passport Card, get it now, before the price goes up. Starting in April 2018, a passport will cost $10 more for all U.S. travelers, both adults and children. That means adult passport books will now cost $145, up from $135, while passports for children
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Food for thought: Americans will eat 1.35 Billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Weekend 2018, enough to circle the Earth three times, and the favorite dipping sauce is ranch dressing. That’s according to The National Chicken Council annual Chicken Wing Report, and includes wings eaten in restaurants and at home. That figure is up 1.5%, or
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