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Best Packing Aids
With a few notable exceptions, the airlines are getting stingier and stingier about how much baggage you can bring without incurring extra fees. Packing more than one suitcase can be costly and some airlines will charge you for even one. The only way...
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Best Travel Planning Books
Sure, it’s easy to find some book about 100 or 500 or 1,000 places you have to see in order to make your life complete, but most of us don’t have that kind of time or money. We need to know how to make the most of one or two trips a year, whether...
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Best Travel Safety Gear
Many people who are exposed to dangers all around them at home nevertheless get extra worried about safety when they go on vacation. Some of the most reliable ways to avoid trouble are based on common sense and require no extra purchases. Don’t pac...
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Best Travel Alarm Clocks
Whether your body wants to cooperate or not, worry-free travels often involve waking up early to catch a train, plane, or bus on time or getting ready for a meeting or conference. Alarm clocks in hotels are notoriously difficult to program and wake-u...
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Best Portable Data Storage Devices
Traveling for business or pleasure is not as simple as it was in the days before e-mail, digital cameras, digital video cameras, and files that need to move from computer to computer. Photos, videos, and work files all take up a lot of storage space ...
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Best Travel Headphones and Earbuds
Many people use their portable music players while working out, jogging, or taking public transportation to work - activities where shutting out the surrounding noise can be inconvenient or even dangerous.
While traveling, however, music playe...
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Best Toiletry Bags
In the old days, toiletry kits were “shaving kits” for men and “cosmetic kits” for women, with both being basically a rectangular or circular bag with one main compartment. Both were fine if you had plenty of counter or vanity space in your h...
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Best Carry-on Bags
As more airlines charge for even the first checked bag and flight delays keep getting worse, it is getting increasingly more important to pack light enough to carry on what you need. The trick is finding a bag that will hold what you need but still c...
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Best Travel Backpacks
Walk into a gear store or visit a product website to browse for backpacks and you may feel like an overwhelmed tea-totaler trying to pick out a bottle in a wine for a gift. Once upon a time there were a few dependable brands of backpacks with a handf...
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Best Travel Hats
If you’re traveling where the sun is strong, you need to travel with a hat. In the tropics and in desert regions especially, it only takes ten or fifteen minutes to get sunburned and a half hour to get dangerously fried. Perhaps the best travel hat...
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Best Book Lights
Go into any book superstore or online book site and you’ll find a dizzying array of products meant to do one simple thing: light up the pages of your book in the dark. There is a big market for solutions to situations where we can’t just turn on ...
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Best Eco-Friendly Travel Gadgets
A few short decades ago, travelers hit the road with very few electronics. A flashlight, maybe a short-wave radio, and later a cassette Walkman. The number of electronics going into the average carry-on bag has increased dramatically in the past ten ...
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Best Laptop Bags for Women
When padded laptop bags first came out, they were pretty much all the same: black, roughly shaped like a briefcase, and very masculine.
Thankfully those days are gone and there is no longer any reason to stick with a boring bag that brings dow...
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Best Laptop Bags for Men
Just as the luggage carousel seems to present a sea of black wheelie suitcases, the airport’s executive lounges are full of businessmen lugging around the same boring briefcase-style black laptop bags. Yes, we know you probably got that boring blac...
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Best Fly Through Airport Security Items
The airport security gauntlet. It can be the most daunting and frustrating part of any vacation or business trip. All the fumbling, undressing, and liquid separating can get anyone flustered. If you’re in a hurry, it’s downright maddening.
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Best Travel Electrical Adapters
Traveling abroad with electronic gadgets?
Just a couple of decades ago, most travelers didn’t set off with anything electronic beyond a hair dryer or a short-wave radio. Now it’s not uncommon for a tourist or business traveler to be packin...
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Best Travel Water Purifiers
Why Purify Your Water?
While much eco-friendly travel advice focuses on buying carbon offsets and choosing “green hotels”, other less dramatic habits can actually have a greater effect over time. Take bottled water. On the one hand, travel...
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