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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
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It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
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This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
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8 Insanely Easy One-Pan Meals

One-pan meals are our favorite culinary experiments for a few reasons: They’re (usually) simple to throw together, cleanup is minimal; and because the flavors in the pan generally have more time to get “comfortable” with each other, they usually wind up being delicious. If you’re constantly working or are always…

By Maxwell Barna
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8 Shows We Can’t Wait to Watch This Fall

The best new TV shows always premiere in the fall, and everybody knows it. In fact, it’s a longstanding tradition that’s been in practice since the early days of TV, and it’s based around the idea that less people are around to watch TV in the summer because they’re all…

By Maxwell Barna
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The Most Relaxing Video Games We’ve Ever Played

We don’t always want to go fast, we don’t always want to shoot lots of zombies, and we certainly don’t always want to find ourselves stranded in space. Sometimes all we want is a video game that’ll help us chill out after a long day. A game that doesn’t play…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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7 Airbnbs Perfect for Catching the Northern Lights

The Northern Lights are one of the most magical, picturesque and mind-blowing natural experiences you'll ever encounter. Seeing the lights in person should absolutely be at the top of your adventure bucket list, so we decided to compile a list of great Airbnb rentals you can use to take them…

By Cooper Fleishman
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We Ran Beer Through Our Keurig to See What Would Happen

Some ideas are really good—the wheel, the PC, the Cheesy Gordita Crunch. Others are really bad—that last drink, these cars, Saved By the Bell: The College Years. But the vast majority of ideas exist somewhere in the middle of these two extremes. Our latest idea, however, does not. Our latest idea is off-the-scale bad. But hear us…

By Mike Newman
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