I’m a veteran bicycle traveller with 19 years of real-world experience, and my goal is to help you make good decisions, not to make money or get free stuff from sponsors. (That’s why there are no ads or sponsored guest posts on this site!) My hope is to give you a taste of ...
Soothsayers have foretold the end of retail as we know it for years. From the 2008 financial crisis to COVID-19, the retail apocalypse is drawing nigh, they say. Perhaps the retail landscape is, instead, undergoing a renaissance, incorporating a blend of in-store and online shopping to bet...
The barkeep and blogger who writes as "Scribbler50" was outraged when, in 2003, New York City enacted one of the first comprehensive smoking bans in bars and restaurants: "How can a guy and some board just kick us in the teeth like this This smacks of fascism." If people are aware ...
And what did the desire of the veteran of World War II -- to settle down, to have a home, a car and a family -- tell us about this Dream? Is the American Dream attainable by all Americans? Would Martin Luther King feel his Dream was at...
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If you’re on a tight budget, what’s ‘best’ is of course the same as what’s cheapest. Before buying anything new, look at charity shops, household recycling centres, skips, campsites’ lost-and-found departments, or find a fellow biker at the end of their trip using Warmshowers and...
Doing the right thing when it comes to e-waste recycling doesn’t take much effort at all. With all the above options, you’ll be able to recycle any old phones and make sure that it doesn’t end up in a landfill. The best thing to do is simply drop your old device off at Green...
Perhaps the biggest difference between the start of that legendary Red Sox season and this current one is that there was very little social media in those days. MySpace had only debuted the previous year, and while Facebook was launched one month prior to the start of the Sox season, it ...
“There is a lot of commercial-grade peridot out there and a lot of August babies don’t like it because it looks like pea soup.” As a designer, Collins focuses on the vivid, bright pieces of peridot, and said when retailers buy the best the stone has to offer and put it in ...
Acts included veteran (老的、著名的) superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talents, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone. Although many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and ...