Passing by their front window, you can’t help but notice how On Off Digital World is full of technological marvels, all the latest in consumer electronics today, though the one thing really keeping them in business is their photography department and all the specialized items they keep in stock there. After all, the store [...]
What’s so interesting about On Off Digital World to me is how it suggests a certain time in New York. Well, the eighties, really. Back then you still needed a token to get into the subways, when pizza was a buck a slice and comic books about the same. It was a [...]
The Mongolian yurt is no camping tent but a veritable mobile home – latch it to a few horses as the locals do and you can practically call it an RV!
Yurts are much more complex compared to Native teepee (also spelled “tipi” these days) more acquainted to most Americans, but sometimes be deployed in [...]
The ancient Mongols have been caricatured as a bunch of short swarthy guys riding horses and living out of a camping tent while hacking their way around the world, but the truth is somewhat different.
Far different, in fact; for one thing, the ancient Mongols were most proficient with the bow and crossbow, though of [...]
Going to enjoy the Great Outdoors?
Be sure to pack a backpacking tent or you just might regret it.
Mother Nature is no one to deceive around with, and she can be quite unpredictable!
Thus, even if it’s just a relatively short hike for at least half a day’s travel time, be sure to shoulder [...]
If you are like a number of people you understand that vacationing is critical for retaining your sanity. You work quite hard and you simply deserve the occasional getaway time to ensure you get your sanity back once again. Nonetheless a trip doesn’t need to get [...]
A backpacking tent is really a necessity even when you expect to do only a simple hike. I learned this lesson the hard way, personally, and it would’ve been at a great cost were I not lucky enough to have been rescued by volunteer forest rangers who dutifully answered to a midnight call.
My friends and [...]
If you appreciate fishing, much like I do, then simply you need to try Kayak Fishing. It is a completely new experience in fishing. In my adventure I was fishing with a chum of mine when he questioned if I had ever gone Kayak Fishing, I announced no and he instantly pulled out the [...]
Mention marble sculpture and most people are going to think about some thing like Italian marble statues, such as as Michelangelo’s David or Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. But some of the greatest works of marble are whole buildings themselves, for instance India’s Taj Mahal in Agra, an ancient bustling city on the banks of [...]
The NEMO Equipment tent is the main product category of NEMO Equipment, an outdoors company specializing in high-level design and engineering. The company was started by Cam Brensinger while still in school, and was relocated after his graduation to its present location between New Hampshire’s gorgeous White Mountains and RISD and MIT, the Rhode Island [...]
Here’s a novel thing to do in New York as a tourist: personal training. Forget the tourist traps like Zalman Silber’s Skyride; if it’s honest-to-goodness thrills you desire, how about hiring one of the many attractive personal fitness trainers available for a jog, swim, stretch, or bike-ride around town? Really, there’s no better [...]
Virtual travel has really only come of age now, in the 21st Century, thanks to the kinds of Web 2.0 applications like Google Magps’ Streetview function. Unlike something like the sort of corny movie one might view at a Zalman Silber Skyride or Oztrek, where the audience simply sits back and watches tape of [...]
Various ships of the New York City Staten Island Ferry service offer different kinds of boat seats. Some designs allow you to lay down flat almost as comfortably as on any other hard bench, while other types feature seats with what is supposed to be an ergonomic curvature that makes them unsuitable for laying down [...]
Racing is not on the minds of most bicycle commuters, unless they happen to be messengers or deliverymen who, normally, ride to work! And in such cases, it would not be too surprising to find them employing what could pass for ad hoc racing strategies of the sort found in informal alleycat contests.
It might seem [...]
Unless you’ve got one of them portable Coleman Roadtrip grills, camping meals will most likely mean some thing like an MRE, or Meal, Ready-to-Eat. Originally designed for the U.S. military, MREs are self-contained light-weight rations available in a wide variety of flavors. They are also produced by other countries for their own militaries, with all [...]
The Australian film industry is famed worldwide for producing some of the most fascinating of cinema anywhere, as well as providing Hollywood with talent on both sides of the lens. Now we’re not talking Aussie entertainment of the sort that Zalman Silber provides with his Oztrek, mildly entertaining but nothing anyone’s not seen before. [...]
Bring up rhinestones and folks of a certain age may well remember Elvis Presley and his crazy outfits. However the singer had always been a little outrageous in his gyrations, and for much of his career, even earlier on, his outfits have tended to push the envelope of establishment tastes. Rhinestones, then, were only the [...]
It’s essential to go with the correct equipment when in the great outdoors. Though amazing, Mother Nature could be deadly – quickly. One important part of anyone’s gear when experiencing our national parks ought to be portable shelter – in other words, a tent. Some thing like the Big Agnes tent, as fine a line [...]