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Video: The 10 Best Road Trips in the USA

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If you’re anything like me you enjoy a good road trip. There’s really nothing like hopping in your car and taking off for a trip to (and through) places you’ve never been before.

I really enjoy simple day trips, spending the morning driving through beautiful countryside and enjoying spectacular scenery, then spending the afternoon driving back via a different route. But as you’ll see in the short video below, multi-day drives can be nice as well.  [Read more…]

Why fast food always looks so much better in commercials than in a restaurant

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Have you ever noticed how the food items featured in ads ALWAYS look better than the ones you receive when you order them at a fast food restaurant.

Well, there’s a reason for that…

They want to make their food look irresistible in the ads so you’ll want to go out and buy it!

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Video: Man builds the thinnest street-legal car

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Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. I can’t even conceive of some of the creations people can come up with, let alone build them myself.

I really enjoy seeing someone take a normal, everyday object and transform it into something completely different.

Watch the short video below and you’ll see a man take a normal full-sized car and turn it into a vehicle that he can barely fit inside of. It’s different, it’s cute and it’s apparently street-legal! Check it out.  [Read more…]

Video: DIY Weed-Free Driveways and Sidewalks

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Do you have an asphalt or concrete driveway or sidewalk that has unsightly weeds growing in the cracks and expansion joints?

If you do I’m guessing that you find them quite irritating. I have that very situation going on right now in my own driveway so I recently went looking for an inexpensive solution.  [Read more…]

Guess what? It’s Spring!

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“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Well, as it always does, spring has arrived to mark the end of another long winter. While most of the trees in my neck of the woods have yet to show any spring buds, a few here and there are already in full bloom.

The beautiful crocuses always get the ball rolling in late February by popping up through the snow to give us a preview of what the coming spring will bring, but for me it’s the greening of the grass in mid-March that’s the surest sign that spring is about ready to pop up on the calendar.  [Read more…]