{"id":42377,"date":"2024-07-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=42377"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:04:07","slug":"rechargeable-travel-toothbrush-skip-the-rental-car-line-more-local-co-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/rechargeable-travel-toothbrush-skip-the-rental-car-line-more-local-co-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Rechargeable Travel Toothbrush\/Skip the Rental Car Line\/More Local Co-working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>An Electric Toothbrush Built for Travel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early days of this newsletter I highlighted a USB rechargeable electric toothbrush that was compact and easy to pack. Unfortunately, it crapped out on me six months later (dead battery I think) while my wife\u2019s Philips One by Sonicare version is still going strong. I\u2019ve ordered one of my own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ffybq\">from this link<\/a>&nbsp;because it comes with replacement heads as well in a bundle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Going Straight to Your Car With Hertz<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I encountered high summer rental car rates in Richmond and Atlanta across the board on this current trip, so I went ahead and rented with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-2223854-15735340\">Hertz<\/a>. I was glad I did because I found that they\u2019ll let you upload your driver\u2019s license and take a selfie to check in ahead of time from your phone. When you get to the garage, you go straight to the spot number they texted and drive away, no waiting in line. You don\u2019t have to book directly with them or be a loyalty member either: my second booking was via Priceline. (National does this as well, but is mostly aimed at biz travelers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Changing \u201cLow Season\u201d Travel Trends<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I was recently at a travel blogger conference meeting with the rep from a city in northern Germany and she told me, \u201cDon\u2019t come in December, the hotels are all full then.\u201d I wasn\u2019t surprised: add remote work, home schooling, and global warming together and you\u2019ve got major disruptions in what we used to think were set patterns. I wouldn\u2019t go as far as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/the-end-of-off-season-travel-cmb\/index.html\">this article<\/a>&nbsp;that has \u201cThe End of Low Season\u201d in its title, but don\u2019t automatically assume a destination is going to be empty just because it used to be at that time of year in the \u201800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Goodbye WeWork, Hello Hyper-local Co-Working<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/local-coworking-spaces-thrive-where-wework-dared-not-go\/\">interesting article from&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/local-coworking-spaces-thrive-where-wework-dared-not-go\/\">Wired<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;highlights the fact that WeWork\u2019s demise does not mean that there isn\u2019t a strong demand for co-working spaces. We just need people who can run them better and put them in the right places. In many cases, those places are, not surprisingly, outside of the city business core where offices used to be. There are a lot of potential trends popping up for community work spaces (some billed as \u201cclubs\u201d) and it\u2019s nice to see creative repurposing of buildings to serve a whole different purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #111<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42378,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42377\/revisions\/42378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}