WHAT GETS YOU UP IN THE MORNING?
What gets you up in the morning? If you’re like me usually it’s a simple need, like water, the bus schedule, a bursting bladder, hunger. From there, the things that drive us each day become more co...
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Build Your Own Vintage-Style Stereo Speakers
Match your record player’s vintage aesthetic with these DIY speakers that sound much better than they have any right to. DIY stereo speakers are a popular project, but they often turn out a boring...
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MIDNIGHT HIKING IN THE ATACAMA DESERT
There’s a reason why some of most powerful observatories on Earth can be found in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. The altitude, seclusion from luminescent cities and unique accolade of being ...
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THE HISTORY OF ‘GOING MAVERICK’
Long before a Tom Cruise character or any rogue politician tried to lay claim to it, the word “maverick” belonged to someone — and some thing — else. That someone was a Texan named Samuel Augustus ...
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Q + A: Luke Shanahan
Luke Shanahan is a writer and director who works all over the map, though he is based in Sydney and the South Coast. When filming commercials in Australia and New Zealand he works out of Moth Proj...
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A Guide to Winter Sports in Japan
It might not have quite made it into the wider American cultural zeitgeist quite yet, but it’s definitely no secret that Japan has some of the greatest powder snowboarding and downhill skiing on th...
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….NOTHING ADVENTURED, NOTHING GAINED
Nothing borrowed, nothing gained. When we travel, we do not own the experience, it is merely a lease of time spent in the company of excitement and inspiration. So often I have flown to a country w...
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AN OLD SURFER’S HAWAII HEYDAY, IN FILM
In Hawaii during the late 1970s, after the last of the night’s parties and music and campfires had died down, Ballard Trent Edwards V would strap a massive longboard to the roof of his VW Fastback ...
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THE ENDLESS SAFARI
When we were teenagers living in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, we had a 1972 Land Rover Series III. Our favorite activity was taking the Rover out, never going anywhere in particular, just g...
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THE LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH VANLIFE
I’m parked at the backcountry trailhead at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. The landscape is transportive; the white dunes bring to mind snow fields of New England, stunning beaches in ...
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VINTAGE EXPLORERS: 7 ADVENTURE VEHICLES FOR THE PERFECT OFF-ROAD TRIP
Few things say adventure like hitting the open road in the latest sports car or super sedan — unless you want to take your adventures off of the beaten path. Steep hills, muddy trails, river crossi...
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Taking the Hard Road to Glacier Point
How the hell did I forget the Jim Beam? With the last few hours of 2015 ticking away, my buddy Kellen and I found ourselves reluctantly splitting a cold beer. Reluctantly, that is, because it was n...
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THE ADVENTURE LIST
25 BEST PLACES TO TRAVEL IN 2016 I have only just boarded the plane to Bogotá, and the reflexive question of a weary traveler creeps in: Why, again, am I going here? There’s Colombian food in Queen...
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