When it comes to camping, why should I opt for a propane campfire over a traditional wood-burning fire? Propane fire pits are easy to light and create high flames. They are also inexpensive to purchase and set up and don’t leave embers or need to be tended to. Unlike wood, they also do not require any firewood, which means you can spend more time relaxing at your campsite instead of collecting wood.

Easy to start

Propane fire pits make camping a breeze. Most models have a ten-foot hose, which makes them easy to transport and store. They also give off a warm glow and are easy to start for beginners. The flame height depends on how much propane is burned. A propane fire pit is great for camping because it can accommodate three to four people. Whether you are camping in the woods or on the beach, there are propane …

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Whether or not you are traveling from Penang to Perth or Kuala Lumpur to Singapore, Google Flights can supply inspiration and make it easier to find the most effective flights available. Beginning at the moment, you possibly can search or /flights to quickly and simply compare and ebook flights — out of your mobile machine, tablet or desktop. And you’ll see native content and pricing in Ringgit.

Usually, I take one of those little bottle of wine they provide on the KLM flights (Montreal – Amsterdam) but you might be right to say that it dehydrates the body. So next time… no wine for me. To help battle the jet lag, often, I attempt to sleep about one hour inside just a few hours of my arrival… after which stay on the new time zone and go early to mattress. It works very properly for me.

After a particularly gruelling …

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You can’t read or watch the news at the moment without hearing horror stories about airport stress. In so many cases, the criticism from frustrated travelers looking forward to their first business trip, vacation, or family reunion in some time is completely justified. While it’s been disappointing to read how some governments have blamed the airlines for the current operational challenges, ultimately, today’s traveler has bought their ticket in good faith and wants to get away as seamlessly as possible.

Having worked in aviation for 17 years, from starting at the check-in counter to being senior cabin crew and now managing our people department, I have definitely witnessed my fair share of delays, long wait times, and airport stress. So far this year I have traveled about once a month, some for work, and others for holidays, and I have of course noticed the difference not just in the logistics

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Traveling alone as a woman can be scary, but it is also incredibly empowering, according to those who have dared to do it. Express.co.uk spoke to two women, Maria Riesco and Jess Bevan, who decided to travel solo this year, for different reasons. For both of them, it was one of the best things they’d ever done.

After breaking up with her boyfriend at the start of the year, Maria decided to try something she’d never done before: travel solo.

She opted for a trip to Sri Lanka through WeRoad, an organization that groups strangers together to go traveling.

Maria told Express.co.uk: “My life changed a lot this year – I decided to make a career move and not long after my long-term boyfriend broke up with me.

“With spare holiday from my previous job I had a lot of free time and needed a distraction, so I thought it

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Science fiction offers up so many realms to explore. So many ideas. And one of the most probing and prevalent themes, usually always rich with creativity and concern, is time travel. It’s a topic we can only theorize about but it’s one that has ushered in some of the best sci-fi movies of all time. Ones that expand the boundaries of imagination and, often, chase us down some very cool rabbit holes.

Whether it’s the story of a killer cyborg sent back in time to wipe out the future leader of a rebellion, the tale of some poor soul forced to relive the same day over and over in a time loop, or the fable of an investigator playing with time in order to solve a mystery, this particular sci-fi terrain is always fruitful. Here are the top 15 time travel films ever!

The Top 15 Time Travel Movies of

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Viewing insider transactions for Travel + Leisure Co.’s (NYSE:TNL ) over the last year, we see that insiders were net sellers. This means that a larger number of shares were sold by insiders in relation to shares purchased.

While we would never suggest that investors should base their decisions solely on what the directors of a company have been doing, logic dictates you should pay some attention to whether insiders are buying or selling shares.

Travel + Leisure Insider Transactions Over The Last Year

Over the last year, we can see that the biggest insider sale was by the Independent Director, George Herrera, for US$128k worth of shares, at about US$58.50 per share. While we don’t usually like to see insider selling, it’s more concerning if the sales take place at a lower price. It’s of some comfort that this sale was conducted at a price well above the current

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This summer, traveling by air comes with more than the usual helping of grief. Getting through that grief may not involve the usual seven stages, but there are a few givens: You’ll need to weather the sharp rise in airfares and, if your flight is delayed or canceled, you’ll need to work through your anger to deals with your airlines. (Keep in mind that more than twice as many US flights were canceled this June compared to last, according to airline tracking site FlightAware.) We asked experts for nuggets of wisdom and strategies that can help you avoid key stressors or, at least, ease the path to acceptance.

Timing Is (Almost) Everything

Wendy Schoneberger spent 31 years as an air-traffic controller, making sure that travelers got where they were going safely. Since starting Solo to Group Travel, a vacation-planning service, in 2012, she’s turned her focus to making sure

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United Airlines’ second-quarter profit of $329 million was its first since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

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United Airlines

has to cut its plans to grow capacity next year because of ongoing challenges including higher fuel prices and systemwide operational issues, the company said on Wednesday.

United (ticker: UAL) still expects to be profitable for 2022, and it says third-quarter total revenue per seat mile should improve 24% to 26% over the same quarter in 2019. But it said it would expand flying 8% or less next year over 2019. An earlier forecast had put that growth plan at closer to 20%.

A second-quarter profit of $329 million was the carrier’s first since Covid-19 began two years ago and didn’t include the federal aid that expired last year.

Strong travel demand helped lift total revenue per seat mile—a key metric for airlines—by 24% from the same period

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Lately, it seems like the news headlines from San Francisco have been negative, from the city’s homelessness crisis and highly publicized recall elections to the area’s astronomical cost-of-living and worsening fire seasons.

But San Francisco is still San Francisco. The fog still rolls in from the Pacific to blanket the city’s jumbled hills, the sunset still flames crimson behind the Golden Gate Bridge and the smell of salt and eucalyptus still hits the moment you step outside of San Francisco International Airport. Always a city for lovers of the outdoors, pandemic restrictions led to the near-universal embrace of an indoor-outdoor city life. And at its core, the city’s spirit, a heady brew of creativity, progressivism and experimentation, remains unbreakable.

San Francisco’s pandemic recovery has been slower than other major metropolitan areas in the United States; according to data from the San Francisco Travel Association, forecasts for 2022 estimate 80 percent

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Travelers wait to offload their flight at Portland International Airport. Staffing shortages, the Covid-19 pandemic and other issues have led to historic levels of disruptions in US air travel.

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This should be a golden age for airlines like

United Airlines

and

American Airlines
.

Travel is surging and seats are hard to come by.

But airline stocks are painting a different picture, trading down with prices closer to their 52-week lows. United Airlines (ticker:

UAL

) was losing 9% on Thursday, while

Delta Air Lines

(

DAL

) dropped 3.4% and

American Airlines

(

AAL

) fell 7.7%. The

US Global Jets ETF

(JETS) was 3% lower on Thursday.

Demand wasn’t the problem in the second quarter. The summer opened a floodgate of pent-up demand for travel, with the Transportation Security Administration reporting passenger volumes similar to pre-pandemic levels. Over the July 4th weekend alone,

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