Sentences with phrase «of city trips»

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The average round - trip commute time is about an hour, but it's not that uncommon for people to commute from the far reaches of the Central Valley into the city.

Many of those trips are made by city dwellers heading home, but many also take the time to go elsewhere, with top destinations being Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

For $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedules.

On a recent trip to Fiji, we drove into the city of Nadi to have dinner at the local McDonald's.

And no trip to Budapest would be complete without a soak in one of the city's famous thermal baths.

After the trip, Hsieh decided that Vegas was the perfect destination to grow the company: The city would be able to provide plenty of call - center talent trained in Vegas» entertainment and hospitality industries, and the lower cost of living could foster accelerated growth.

A City of Vancouver survey of 2,500 residents this year indicated that, for the first time, fewer than 50 % of trips within the city were made by City of Vancouver survey of 2,500 residents this year indicated that, for the first time, fewer than 50 % of trips within the city were made by city were made by car.

The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission a few years ago released a fascinating set of data, listing 1.1 billion separate taxi trips taken from 2009 through 2015.

Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle — ten trips a year, give or take — and for good reason.

Some of Meyer's most hardcore fans have taken to visiting all of his various New York City restaurants — Gramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafe, Blue Smoke — in one several - day trip.

Round - trip plane tickets from New York City to the Maldives cost around $ 1,000 on the low end, while hotels can range from under $ 50 to around $ 2,000 per night, depending on the level of amenities.

Using the site, you can take advantage of the down time you will have on a business trip by uploading your travel itinerary, and finding a fellow entrepreneur in another city to invite to coffee.

Almost a third of Canadians commute to work by car, with those in the biggest cities averaging a 30 - minute one - way trip, according to Statistics Canada.

On Saturday night, Uber's New York City Twitter account announced that it was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK airport in light of the protests against Donald Trump's executive order that bans immigrants from seven Muslim - majority countries.

There's also that popular project of space tourism: While Musk envisions $ 250,000 one - way trips to Mars, Jain imagines $ 10,000 or less week - long vacations on the moon, which he says could be just as connected to the mother planet as any two cities back on Earth.

This can take the edge off of a sudden trip to a new city, seeing friends or even leads that you didn't know were in the area.

This year at the advice of my employees, I organized a holiday shopping trip to New York City (a three - and - a-half-hour drive).

Living in Chicago, we live in a city that's aggressively segregated, and with that trip it was like seeing the logical conclusion of that systematic segregation of Apartheid.

Located in the centre of the city within a short trip to downtown, palatial mansions, many locked behind gates and obscured by hedges, are designed to impress.

Donald Trump Jr.'s comments, at the start of a trip to woo buyers for his luxury residential projects in several Indian cities, appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be a possible conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.

Many of those trips are made by city dwellers heading home, but many also visit other cities in the country, with top destinations including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

How much does the gas tank hold in city or on one of your famous road trips?

The pressure to «get it right» and craft the perfect trip ends up overshadowing the whole purpose of taking vacation in the first place — to relax and enjoy yourself in a new city or country.

My concierge Dave told me that he primarily plans trips for New York City, Los Angeles, and London, all of which are cities that he's lived in.

These trips would involve taking a boat to a launchpad in the water and boarding a ship that's carried out of the atmosphere by a BFR, before returning to a landing pad near the destination city.

The only way Malawi can import and export goods is by road via Blantyre, the country's commercial capital, to the Mozambican port city of Beria, a round trip of 1,200 kilometers (745 miles).

On Saturday night, Uber's New York City Twitter account notified riders that the company was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK Airport, the site of protests against President Donald Trump's executive order blocking some Middle Eastern travelers and refugees.

«It was sensory overload,» he says, a faraway look in his eyes as he recalls a trip to India's holy city of Varanasi 11 years ago with his wife and their four children.

Of course, it is one thing to share trip and user insights with city and government officials (Uber and Lyft already do it).

As fast as Warby Parker has grown, there are still plenty of cities left to hit, so this year the company launched Warby Parker Class Trip, a traveling store on wheels.

«That is my time to enjoy the city I traveled to, catch up with friends and colleagues and use the business trip as part of my life experience.»

The trips include stopovers in major cities where students will learn firsthand what it is like to do business while participating in a number of cultural and tourist activities.

«As congestion increases in the cities, the predictability of the trip by car will be reduced and then the alternatives can become more competitive,» she says.

In many cities, UberPool now accounts for more than half of Uber trips taken.

The future of one of the most feared relief pitchers in Major League Baseball, Mariano Rivera, is suddenly in doubt after he tripped during a recent New York Yankees team practice in Kansas City, Mo..

Dozens of Tesla owners gathered at the 40 - stall Kettleman City Supercharger for the first - ever Tesla Takeover — an epic road trip by...

Speaking on the sidelines of an official trip to Jakarta, Yau, the city's secretary for commerce and economic development, said: «We will continue to be a voice of the multilateral rule - based free trade system... and a valued partner of all participants in the system, including the US.»

Ford is leaving town on a trip to Austin, Texas, where he and a delegation of city councillors and music industry leaders are to try to glean lessons from the city as to how to better brand Toronto as a music - friendly town.

She has won a trip for two to the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by FOOD & WINE and we can think of anyone more deserving.

Liberal government pledges to reduce to $ 3 the fares for all GO Transit trips that are either less than 10 kilometres or are taken within the city of Toronto, and wants to being talks about the province taking ownership of the subway.

The city has some of the worst traffic we've encountered on this trip.

The leaflets often make it seem as if poverty is «out there,» whether that's in the Global South or the inner city, and that the fight against it only includes a monthly donation and a couple of hours of volunteering or a short missions trip.

On a recent trip across America, what surprised me most was the number of people - over 200 in one city, 80 to 150 elsewhere - who wanted to discuss this odd word, «acedia.»

A large group of young adults from the City Church of San Diego said they were in town on a mission trip.

If so, then one may hope that the pope will take advantage of his trip to Istanbul to do something that Paul VI did not do when he visited Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I in 1964: Benedict could issue to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I a formal apology on behalf of the West for the Fourth Crusade, whose marauding soldiers never reached Jerusalem hut turned their full forces on Constantinople, savagely sacking the city in 1204.

Between rifles, permits, ammunition, gas (to drive out of the burbs and into hunting territory) tents, camo gear, food / beer for the hunting trip, extra electricity to run the freezer etc, how can all this truly be cheaper than doing what most poor people in the cities do most of the time — fast food and making do with cheap grocery store food like peanut butter sandwiches.

Instead of shopping in Soho or bar - hopping in Williamsburg, book a Context Travel trip — an architect - led tour of the city's storied and impressive buildings (contexttravel.com).

* A field trip during July and August of 1983 took the writer to all the major cities and many of the towns and villages in every province of the Republic, as well as the «homelands» of Ciskei and Transkei.

A field trip during July and August of 1983 took the writer to all the major cities and many of the towns and villages in every province of the Republic of South Africa.

In the summer of 1993, he and his family took a road trip through the Western states, and for the journey, I gave him copies of St. Augustine's City of God and Confessions, thinking he might find them interesting, but never imagining their dramatic influence on him.