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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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The 15 Best Tactical Pens for Your EDC

Like its Kubotan cousin that was developed in the late 60s, the tactical pen is a self-defense weapon. Unlike the Kubotan though, the tactical pen does double duty as a self defense weapon and a traditional writing instrument, which is why one is perfect for your everyday carry. Cold Steel…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
What Your Girlfriend Wants You to Wear

A large part of the reason we try to look good is to impress the fairer sex. So it couldn’t hurt every once in a while to get a woman’s perspective on the clothing and accessories she’d prefer. We turned to our friends at Style Girlfriend to do just that. Here…

By Style Girlfriend
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The Best Movies Available on Amazon Prime Right Now

Amazon Prime Video has quietly been expanding and improving the quality of their movie and television streaming selection for quite some time, swallowing up what Netflix either can’t get or drops completely. It’s a tactic that’s been working for them too. They went from a service that almost exclusively offered…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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‘S-Town’ Is the Podcast You Need to Be Listening To Right Now

S-Town, the latest podcast from the team behind Serial and This American Life, does not go the way you think it will. Now, in the interest of keeping this post relatively spoiler-free, we won't tell you what that exactly means, but we will say it's the reason you need to listen. Hosted by Brian…

By Mike Newman
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The 11 Best Umbrellas to Keep You Dry

If you're anything like us, you spend way too much time agonizing over your gear purchases. The one thing we never seem to think about though is one of the most important accessories for the spring, the umbrella. Unless you already own something that didn't come from the local drugstore,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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