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Living Vehicles 2020 Off-Grid Camping Trailer Is A Legit Luxury Apartment On Wheels
You want all the fun and freedom of taking in the great outdoors that camping can provide, but you really can’t do without a queen-sized bed and washer and dryer? Living Vehicle has you covered.
Based in California, the mobile home builder just released a look at its 2020 trailer. It really hits a sweet spot—off-grid, mobile luxury. The 2020 model is for living on the go and maybe even glamping year-round in style.
At 28-feet-long, the all-new 2020 model is just 220 square feet, measurements that don’t stand out on the screen or on paper. But it uses every inch to fullest advantage and offers a queen-sized bed and fold-out deck to boot and room in the kitchen to reconfigure for extra sleeping, meaning you can fit up to six campers.
Some choice specs: The aluminum frame is steel-reinforced and if you choose Living Vehicle’s “Off-Road” options, you can get off-road tires, higher ground clearance for easier overland driving, and a sleek black body liner.
If you really want to crank out some fine dining even while parked in the High Sierras, the 2020 model has a Chef’s Kitchen option which includes:
- Propane grill
- Oven
- Instant hot-water system
- Dishwasher
- Wine cooler that fits six bottles
And you know, getting off the grid doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice entertainment choices. Living Vehicle’s trailer has baked-in wifi capability and a sweet-sound 42-inch 4K TV with the option to turn the vehicle into a straight-up home theater complete with a 70-inch screen and 4k projector.
There’s a special “4 Season Performance Package” as well, and it sounds downright decadent, complete with an A/C unite that cranks out 15,000-BTU.
Right now Living Vehicle only has plans for 25 units. It’s on the high side, cost-wise, but if you do the math it might just cost less than your $2,000 a month efficiency apartment, in the long run.
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Jim Beam Releases $125 ‘Super Premium’ Bourbon Blend
Jim Beam’s newest “super premium” bourbon blend is especially close to eighth-generation distiller Freddie Noe’s heart.
Little Book Chapter 3: The Road Home is the third expression in the American whiskey behemoth’s annually released Little Book line of small-batch blends, following 2017’s “The Easy” and 2018’s “Noe Simple Task.”
The name of the series itself is a nod to Noe’s childhood nickname, which was bestowed on him by his family because of the similarities he shared with his grandfather, Kentucky distilling legend Booker Noe.
As Gear Patrol notes, the 122.6 proof, 61.3-percent alcohol-by-volume Chapter 3 is the first bourbon-only Little Book installment. Specifically, it’s comprised of 9-year-old Knob Creek, 9-year-old Basil Hayden’s, 11-year-old Booker’s and 12-year-old Baker’s.
According to Jim Beam parent company Beam Suntory, forward notes of vanilla, wood and caramel from Knob Creek and Booker’s give way to spiciness from Basil Hayden’s on the palate. The Baker’s provides a lingering, warm and sweet finish layered with tones of oak.
“This particular blend carries a lot of sentimental value for me,” Noe said. “Each of the individual bourbons are special to me, just as they were to my granddad, and I really wanted to make sure they came through the final blend in a way that would make him proud.”
“Every aspect of Chapter 3 had to be absolutely perfect—the vanilla notes, the finish, the aroma,” Noe added, “so I meticulously tested each blend to get it to a place that represented the entire Small Batch Collection while creating something totally new that I think people are really going to love.”
Priced at $124.99 for a fifth, Jim Beam Little Book Chapter 3: The Road Home is available in limited quantities now.
For more great new bourbons, check out this list of ten standout bottles recognized in honor of Bourbon Heritage Month.
There’s Now a ‘Sexy Mister Rogers’ Halloween Costume, and People Are Predictably Outraged
Online lingerie retailer Yandy has been making absurd Halloween creations for years featuring scantily-clad versions of inanimate objects, government officials, religious figures, and viral memes.
There’s been a Sexy Pizza Rat, Sexy Poop Emoji, Sexy Pope…and now, the cheeky company has come up with a “Sexy Mister Rogers” costume.
Officially called “Yandy Nicest Neighbor Costume” that retails for $59.95, the racy outfit features a cropped red cardigan, a collar-and-tie combo, and grey booty shorts. The hand puppets, wig, belt, and socks are sold separately, in case you were wondering.
The description on the Yandy website reads:
Won’t you be my neighbor? Entice your friends next door with your playful puppets! Suit up with a neck tie, and be the friendliest next door neighbor in town in this exclusive Nicest Neighbor costume featuring a red top with a V-neckline, long fitted sleeves, a white detachable collar with a black neck tie, and matching high waisted gray shorts with belt loops. (Hand puppets, wig, belt and socks not included.)
Clearly, it’s a harmless costume that even the retailer itself poked fun at in a blog post titled “The Yandy Costumes You’ll Make Fun of This Halloween.”
While some people agree and think it’s hilarious albeit ridiculous (which is the point, according to Yandy CEO Chad Horstman), others have predictably taken offense at the jokey sexualization of their cardigan-wearing childhood icon, who is played by Tom Hanks in It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a critically-acclaimed biopic that hits theaters November 22.
Instagram comments from aggrieved Mister Rogers fans under Yandy’s post include: “Don’t do that to him. Disrespectful,” “Y’all done disrespected Mr. Rogers wholesome self with this,” and the classic, “That’s so wrong on so many levels.”
Angry fans of the late Fred Rogers might be taking things a little too far online, though. The model wearing the costume, Dessie Mitcheson, says she’s been getting cyberbullied by folks from Pittsburgh, where Rogers was raised.
What internet trolls don’t know, perhaps, is that Mitcheson herself is from a town called Apollo just outside of Pittsburgh. Plus, she’s simply a model who posed for a picture wearing a costume she played no part in creating.
“It’s kind of ironic because I was born and raised in Pittsburgh and so is Mister Rogers, like 20 minutes from where I grew up,” Mitcheson told TMZ.
“I am getting a lot of hate mail from Pittsburgh people saying, ‘How could you do this to Mister Rogers?’ Someone wrote to me, ‘Don’t ever come back to Pittsburgh again.'”
Mitcheson, who has been modeling sexy costumes for nearly ten years, is laughing off the haters.
“As soon as I saw the costume I knew there were going to be people that loved it and there were going to be people that hated it, and people that just judged it. But I think it’s getting blown out of proportion for sure. It’s just a costume for fun.”
H/T: BroBible