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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
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
Lifestyle
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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Lifestyle
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
Lifestyle
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
Transportation
Highland System Storm Armored Hybrid Amphibious MPV

In case you were looking for a nice, friendly apocalypse vehicle, you might want to get some special military dispensation to plunk down your life savings on the Storm. made by Highland System, it's actually served for the British armed forces. It looks like a combination of an M1 Abrams…

By Amos Kwon
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The L.E.A.D. YEZO Retreat Is Something Straight Out of Fantasy Fiction

Nestled in the northern mountain range of Hokkaido, Japan, you'll find YEZO, a small retreat design and built by the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design (aka L.E.A.D.), an international, multiple award-winning architecture design and research practice that's been innovating for a decade. YEZO takes advantage of the dramatic landscape…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Stipfold Angular Blackbird Cabin

While we've all jotted down notes and sketches for projects during night's out among friends, few of them turn into anything more than unfettered creativity with the free-flowing exchange of ideas. The Stipfold Angular Blackbird Cabin was born out of the same unfiltered creative process, but it actually resulted into…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Vansmith Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Camper Van

[Products and services are carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission.] Omaze offers up some seriously awesome vehicles for raffle, and this Vansmith Camper Van has our name written all over it since we crave the overlanding life badly. $80 grand…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus 008 Buggy

The influence of the masses can move mountains, at least in the automotive world. Boutique premium performance automaker Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus responded to its customers who wanted their own version of SCG's 004 supercar bolted onto their new Boot offroad buggy chassis. The result is the SCG 008 (aka 004…

By Amos Kwon
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