For me, just-right coffee is a necessity that helps me get into my day, especially when on the road. So I compared portable coffee systems: the BRuX vs my trusty makeshift rig. Here’s a full report.
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Simplest Possible Curtain Tie (And Hotel Room Strategy)
We love this impromptu-looking curtain tie made of a strip of leather. Ribbon would be swell as well. It reminds us of our improvised hotel room strategy for calming down curtains with busy prints…
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A Breathtaking, Life-Affirming 60 Countries in 3 Minutes
(Video link here.) In 2011 Walter Chang quit his job after saving up for a couple of years to travel around the world. I trekked amazing landscapes, checked off the bucket list, hitchhiked, slept anywhere I could, and made countless friends. These are my memories. His video, We Call this Home, is a fine reminder of the wonders…
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GIF of the Week: Escape Packing
The weather’s so beautifu, it makes us think of going on a road trip. Dave Hax’s fast-and-minimalist packing job begs the question: What do we REALLY need to take with us? via i.imgur Thanks Holton!
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changing plans last minute…to surf in Ireland
(Video link here.) We WISH we were the kind of person who just switchrf gears on-a-dime, as surfer Nic von Rupp did to great reward. Having gotten a call about the extraordinary surf in Ireland — IRELAND!!— he canceled the flight to Hawaii he was about to get on, and flew to Ireland instead, into…
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come along for a ride into space…
Objectified cinematographer Luke Geissbühler and his 5-year-old son Max made a homemade spacecraft out of a Thai food takeout container and a weather balloon, and outfitted it with an HD video camera and an iPhone. Last August, they sent it into space. “The mission was…was send it up into the upper stratosphere to film the…
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