Close Encounters of the Traveling Kind
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Category: Lessons from the Road
Some things you only learn by doing them repeatedly.
Lessons from the Road collects evergreen insights about travel — loyalty, logistics, habits, and decisions — distilled from experience rather than theory.
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I didn’t set out to find a new travel charger. Instead, I found myself in need of one. I was in an airport with a phone down to its last ions, doing the familiar scan for a place to charge. Every public USB port I tried had already lost the fight — broken tongues, half-sheared…
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Electric vehicles tend to provoke strong opinions. Some people swear by them. Others swear at them. Most of the conversation revolves around what EVs represent — environmentally, politically, culturally. In practice, though, renting and driving an EV on a trip is far less ideological than people expect. Day to day, the differences between an electric…
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