These Are My Favorite Travel Gadgets
The best travel gadgets to get your to your destination with fully charged gear and juice to spare! Read on to see our picks.
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The best travel gadgets to get your to your destination with fully charged gear and juice to spare! Read on to see our picks.
Read moreAfter more than a year stuck at home — and thanks to the just-relaxed mask mandates for the fully vaccinated — some 37-million people plan to travel over Memorial Day. If all goes well, summer vacation season could be off to a banner start, and life might finally start resembling something closer to “normal.”
But the sudden freedom to travel again doesn’t mean it’s all smooth sailing.
Airfares are on the rise, rental cars are in short supply, and hotel room rates are skyrocketing. Even finding an available — and affordable — vacation home or campsite near many popular destinations in the U.S. can feel like a new form of doomscrolling.
Luckily, there are some incredible tech tools to help you get around all kinds of potential travel troubles so that you can — finally! — take that vacation you’ve been dreaming about.
Read more***This story originally ran/aired in USA Today.*** Seven months into this global pandemic, my husband traded his big, white professional-videographer production van for a bigger, taller, and more adventuresome shade of “pebble gray” Sprinter van. Since so much of his on-location production…
Read moreNo more sitting in traffic for hours or waiting in a mile-long airport security line. The Thanksgiving travel rush will likely be more of a bust this year. AAA is forecasting a steep drop-off in travel for the upcoming holiday…
Read moreAfter four months of staring at the same four walls — walls you have scrubbed, painted, and the kids are climbing — literally(!) — you’re ready for a change of scenery. You and everyone else too. Arrivalist’s Daily Travel Index shows nearly…
Read moreI fly around 10,000 miles a month for work. When COVID-19 grounded non-essential travel in mid-March, I did what I had to do: Hunkered down, followed shelter-in-place orders, and researched tools to help make it safe-ish to travel again. I…
Read moreIf you’re alone a lot — or just need a change of pace — there are more new ways than ever to fill the void, beyond the video calls or multiplayer gaming. The trick is knowing where to look for satisfying and safe ways to pass the time and interact with real people. Here are several top options, depending on how you’re feeling.
Read moreNo plans for this Labor Day weekend yet? Don’t worry, thanks to a handful of new apps that go all-in with the sharing economy, you could throw an epic pool party, rent a speedboat, or even go glamping on your…
Read moreThis story originally ran in USA Today as part of Jennifer’s on-going Tech+Culture column. A year ago, boarding a cruise ship at the Port Everglades dock in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was an exercise in patience as passengers waited in blocks-long lines…
Read moreIt’s been a long, cold, boring winter, but now temps are rising and Spring Break is upon us! I know, I know, you can’t wait to get away from it all, but if you’re anything like me, you find the…
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