Brent and Michael's Secret Travel Hacks, Part 16!
Get more bang for your buck, eliminate wrinkles *and* acne, get out grease stains, sleep better, only log in once, and find a doctor who speaks your language!
Still more of our very special travel hacks.
For other travel hack columns, go to Part Ten and Part Eleven and Part Twelve and Part Thirteen and Part Fourteen and Part Fifteen and Part Seventeen and Part Eighteen and Part Nineteen and Part Twenty and Part Twenty-One and Part Twenty-Two and Part Twenty-Three and Part Twenty-Four.
Here are the latest hacks!
The U.S. dollar is very strong right now — in particular, in Japan, Canada, Australia, and Western Europe. That means for Americans, prices will seem surprisingly low. For Americans, it’s a really good year to travel outside the United States.
Unfortunately, that means visitors to America will find things even more ridiculously expensive.
Get a sleep-mask. New evidence shows that even soft light — equivalent to the light in the hallway outside your bedroom — can have a surprisingly negative effect on the quality of your sleep. And if you work inside during the day, you’re even more sensitive to light at night.
Hotels have generally become fairly good about having blackout or light-blocking curtains, but Airbnbs are still terrible in this respect, and one bedroom will always have nothing but flimsy, gossamer curtain-like thingies over the window.
Dunkin (Donuts) currently offers amazing specials on their app.
The high price of sunscreen getting you down? Consider “baby” or “kids” sunscreen. Yes, these products work perfectly well on adults. The difference is, they’re made for more sensitive skin, so they use ingredients (like zinc) that sit on the skin, rather than chemicals that are absorbed into it. This could be healthier in general, although it means the product can look “white” — harder to rub in and make look invisible.
But it will also be much cheaper than adult sunblock, sometimes even half as much.
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