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10 Tips for Making Your Home Secure when Leaving on Vacation

We go on vacation to unwind, relax and have a good time; we’ve worked hard for those precious vacation days. They are well deserved, so we shouldn’t have to worry about our home while away. However, sometimes all hell breaks loose and disaster happens. There’s nothing more unpleasant than to come back from vacation and […]

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Reviewing our New Carry-On Knapsack (Compressible Backpack)

We recently booked a trip on a discount airline to go and visit family in Montreal. After checking their site, we noticed that their carry-on allowance was for bags that are only 20x13x16! We also saw that they were very strict about this and would charge large fees to check the bags if over-sized. We […]

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Protecting Expensive and Fragile Equipment While Traveling

When flying, we are limited in the number and size of the bags we’re allowed to bring on board. But sometimes it’s worth dedicating one of those bags to our expensive or fragile equipment in order to keep it safe.

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Travel Apps and Tools to Help You Navigate Like a Pro

So most airlines have their own mobile app nowadays and this is great for tracking your own flights, checking-in, and perhaps even making seat changes or booking travel. Some apps even show connecting gate information and airport maps to help you navigate airports where you are connecting. While many of these apps are great, we […]

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Don’t Use the Hotel App to Checkout Unless You Really Mean It!

On a recent trip out of Montreal we had a super early flight at 6 am and as we left the hotel around 4 am I used the convenient hotel app to check out

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Scuba Diving Travel Tech

Rounding Your Nitrox Values

While diving the Vandenberg, we were setup for two 100-feet+ dives running 30.2 and 30.8 percent nitrox mixes. For those that are not familiar with nitrox gas or diving, it is a mixture that contains more oxygen but has inherent hazards in that going below the prescribed depth can lead to oxygen toxicity and death. Divers […]

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Scuba Diving Travel Tech

Staying Safe on the Water with the Nautilus GPS Beacon

Anyone that has seen the movie Open Water, read the book Diver Down, or even read the many Divers Alert Network articles on diving safety knows that there can be a real risk of being swept away by currents and quite possibly out of view from your buddy, group, or dive boat. A scary thought!

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Charge on the Go!

Having flown over 2 million miles, I have had my share of travel experiences. I’ve also purchased and worked with a number of travel gadgets and gizmos, some good some bad. We’ve created this Travel Tech section to help our readers and we do not have any affiliation with these products nor do the manufacturers or […]