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Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta

Finding Nature and Nurture in Puerto Vallarta

Come for the mountains, ocean, and adventure. Stay for the martinis, massages, and freshly cleaned sunglasses.

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Starting off this post with, "If you're a fan of Stanley Kubrick . . ."  would be insanely pointless seeing as how the chances that you don't like at least one of the director's movies is so minuscule that they would not even register on some sort of money-wasting worldwide…

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This post is brought to you by Saab. At Saab, we believe in independent thinking. It’s in everything we do. Learn more here. Some of the greatest inventions of the modern era--the microprocessor, the internal combustion engine, Bloody Marys--took years of development and contain complex systems and parts working in…

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Given the choice, we'd probably never be wearing anything other than boxers and a t-shirt. We love the collection of shoes we've been assembling since we had a budget for shoes - and we love looking good - but comfort is a higher priority in our book. SeaVees is like…

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With long-lost items like Bonkers and Giggles cookies, sometimes we forget the awesomeness the 80's had to offer. Like the plastic cameras that turned everyone into David LaChapelle. Whether you were taking pictures of your G.I. Joe's staging a coup on a group of unsuspecting Barbie Dolls or were trying to take more artistic…

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