High Adventures in the Great Outdoors
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My first visit to Japan was in 2004 – many more for different reasons follow. What was a formidable experience the first time around, only got better once one was able to discern and deep dive into the beauty that is …
What’s Sumatra with you? High Voltage Coffee.
As the Descendents put it ever so eloquently “I don't need no booze or drugs/ I just chug-a-lug-o my coffee mug”. Now, my first visits to the US in the early 90s and when those lyrics were penned, were certainly …
High Adventures in the Great Outdoors – Footwear
We covered how much boots and specifically Dr. Martens coined underground couture in the 1970s and throughout the 1980s. However, with the advent of hardcore and straight edge, punk got a long needed overhaul – down to below the …
Turbonegro, Tom of Finland and High Gloss
My first exposure to Turbonegro must have been via the triumvirate that are the Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives, Helta Skelta and Never is Forever albums, which entered my rotation in the early 1990s.
However, it was not …
High Adventures in the Great Outdoors – Undone
There are no two ways about it: The opposite of “off-the-rack” is gaining in popularity with customization being a feat of exclusivity and luxury. What in the world of bespoke tailoring with clothing being made to individual measurements of …
High Adventures in the Great Outdoors – Lonely Planet
It has been almost fifty years since Lonely Planet was incepted, following Maureen and Tony Wheeler’s trip across Europe, Asia and eventually Australia and what has started with some stapled booklets, has evolved to becoming the go-to resource …
High Adventures in the Great Outdoors
What makes great soap?
Well, there are certainly some basic that need to be accomplished in terms of making it fundamentally sound, however, there is a point when soapmaking becomes an art in itself and leave behind scientific foundations.
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