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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

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The only issue we ever had with pinball was the sheer size of the game.  While easy to store in an arcade or back of a run-of-the-mill pizza joint, putting Intellivision/NES/Sega Genesis/Playstation/Xbox 360 just made more sense to us for optimal storage vs entertainment ratio.  So, it would be easy…

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Soap isn't generally considered very manly. It's an absolute necessity if you don't want to feel and/or be disgusting, but that's about it. Men don't go to stores like Bath and Body Works looking for new fragrances to put in their bathroom. We need one bar of soap, and the…

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If you have a brother, you remember some epic fights from when you two were kids. They all started innocently enough with Nerf guns, plastic swords or water balloons, but somehow always ended with a gaping wound on one of your foreheads. So the most basic storyline of two brothers duking…

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At this point, it's all but assumed that every one of you reading this owns at least one nice pen. You probably also own at least one nice bag, one set of cups and some pretty sweet accessories for your phone. What's the point? Owning one doesn't mean you can't…

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William H. Macy has played every role from President to Vice Principal to police officer to dinosaur chaser, but it isn't until he steps into the role of dad as Frank Gallagher on the show Shameless that his true brilliance shines through. Somehow, Macy believably becomes a belligerent drunk and…

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