Travel the World Like a Man

The Long Bar at the Mount Nelson, Cape Town

The Long Bar at the Mount Nelson isn’t just a great place to beat the African heat, It’s a living scrapbook of empire, ghosts, and hangovers, wrapped in pink paint

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Around the World in 80 Bars

Heinold’s First and Last Chance, Oakland

Heinold’s First and Last Chance squats at the edge of Oakland’s waterfront like some old dog that’s seen too much and refuses to die. Built in the 1880s out of

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Around the World in 80 Bars

Stirred and Shaken: Duke’s London

Dukes isn’t the kind of bar you find by accident. You don’t wander in, wide-eyed and lost. No, you slip through the door off a discreet St James’s Street, and

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Around the World in 80 Bars

Where the River Watches Back: Anaconda Hunting on the Tiputini

In 2024, scientists discovered the largest species of snake on earth: the green anaconda, in the Amazon rainforest. Nicknamed Ana Julia, this serpent was measured from head to tail at

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Epic Adventures

It’s Go Time – Travel Can Save Your Life

Even if you’re a noodle boy with a thrift-store cardigan and chipped nail polish, you know something big is missing from life these days: real adventure.

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Nomad Nation

Smoke, Fire, and Ghosts: the Mezcal Mystique

There’s a road out of Oaxaca City that winds like a lazy thought through dry hills and cactus fields. By the time you’ve left the city proper, the sounds of

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A Dead Pirate’s Weekend in Florida

The numbers get fuzzy fast when you ask how much unfound pirate gold is still out there, but people who make a living pulling history off the seafloor quietly say

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Rat Pack Weekends

The Fever Dream of Ghana’s Hand-Made Movie Posters

Ghanaian movie posters are a lie that tells the truth, the way all great hustles do. They promise a film, but what they really deliver is a fever dream of

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Off the Map

An Outlaw Weekend on Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail

Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s in his pocket – along with a pack of Camels, a Zippo lighter and a roll of dimes, a final

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Rat Pack Weekends

Holy Bivalves: Oysters the Right Way

The universe is full of mysteries – quarks, black holes, Dancing with the Stars – so speaking in absolutes can be really tricky. But the one thing I am certain

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The New Bohemia: Where’s the Next Berlin?

Iggy Pop and David Bowie pulled out of the Los Angeles spiral in the mid‑’70s and holed up in West Berlin, looking for cheaper rent, fewer dealers, and a clean

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Off the Map

Beach Bars Worth Missing Your Flight For

A sandy beach bar doesn’t just feel like telepathy; it’s a slow-motion con job your senses are absolutely in on. The place lines up all the cheap, legal brain hacks—blue

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