I am headed on a road trip with my family and was thinking of what we definitely need to take. Disinfectant Wipes — Every trip should start and end with Disinfectant Wipes. Life is dirty and what better way to clean up then with the wipes. Medicine Kit — I can not tell you how many times we […]
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My friend is in Tokyo and will not stop talking about how he loves 7-Eleven stores there and how he goes at least once a day. After kidding him that he must be homesick for a slurpee, I asked him why? He went on how great the 7-Eleven shops are in Japan. He said the you would not believe their high quality food,
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One of my friends was scheduled to fly to Japan but he was delayed 10 hours because a typhoon was going to hit Tokyo. We started to wonder what are his rights and options in this situation. Little did I know what a can of worms we were opening. It seems that the Department of Transportation has rules
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I was thinking about services that hotel staff provide that used to be valuable but in our day and age are now almost worthless. In the past, when you traveled to a new place, you would want the help of the hotel staff in a bunch of things that now you can find out with the
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I came across an article on HuffPost entitled 7 Perks You Probably Didn’t Know Hotel Staff Can Give You and I was excited to see what perks I was missing out. I thought that their list was not complete and left off many valuable services. HuffPost’s list consisted of 1. Restaurant recommendations. 2. Decoration of rooms for special occasions. 3. Transportation arrangements. 4. Advice on local
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I was in Niagara Falls, Canada a few years back and when I went to pay for the tickets for the Hornblower Niagara Boat Ride, I was offered the choice of paying in Canadian Dollars or US Dollars. Stupidly, I chose US Dollars and the tickets ended up costing me 15% as a result. Why is that you
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Just when you thought that tipping creep reached it limits, we have a new set of folks looking for tips. The airlines. No, not the pilots. But maybe down the road, they will ask for tips so that the plane could be on time or less turbulent. That would be nice. Actually thinking about it,
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After traveling with my Electric Vehicle, many thoughts ran through my mind about the differences in traveling with an EV and an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle. Most people will say that range anxiety is their biggest concern because they do not know where they can charge their car. I think that this concern is
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We have decided that Newport is a great foodie town. I don’t know if we were lucky or good but all of our choices were really tasty. I have to highlight two of them which is tough. The first one is Scratch Kitchen & Catering located in the Broadway section of Newport. We found out when we
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Following up with my EV experience. I headed to Newport Rhode Island from New York. This is a trip of roughly 182 miles. As I plugged in my route, I saw that I could make it home without making a stop to charge my car. I was starting with a 82% charge and I would
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