Dear Jasmine & Joe,
Bend, OR was great! I went to Deschutes (free tasters), then to Bend Brewery (female brew master), then to Silver Moon Brewing (divey, no need to act classy here!) and ended my afternoon at the Deschutes brew pub. They use their spent grain to make hamburger buns & feed cows. They then [...]

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Technically, to get to Partington Cove you do not hike UP a mountain. Instead, you have a short hike DOWN to the ocean. But since we did a lot of hiking in general over our weekend in Big Sur, and since you do have to hike back UP to Hwy. 1, we decided drinking a beer [...]

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Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks are like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. No matter how good Pippen got, he could never step out of Jordan’s shadow. Kids across the country were fighting each other for ownership of the newest Jordan card. I, however, quietly sat back and collected an overabundance of Pippen cards. Now, [...]

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Note: Jasmine and I almost never write about the same topics – this time we did. This week the Tourist Club is getting twice the love. Here is Jasmine’s take: 
Last year, Joe and I hiked through Muir Woods for two hours, up and up and up, through redwood grooves and out onto sunny hillsides, so [...]

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Inspired by our beer destination discussions, my brother Luke offered to share his “Extreme Beer Drinking” experience:
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On a recent trip to Joshua Tree National Park, my girlfriend and I decided that knocking back a few cold ones around the campfire just wasn’t enough. We were going to enjoy these beers to [...]

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