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Counter culture luminaries such as beat poet Allen Ginsberg, writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards often frequented El Batey when the bar first opened.
Sometimes run like Secret Santas, other times as free-for-alls where anyone can fulfill anyone else’s request, they might be hyper-specific or genre-wide, but often they involve things that are already popular in the fandom world—think pop-culture juggernauts like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the manga My Hero Academia, or CW’s Supernatural.
Even in the parking area it is easy to get stuck in the sand, and vehicle travel beyond this point most definitely requires 4wd; in general, the farther you go the more extreme the road conditions.
The collections include wooden bench shaped like Hillary Clinton, the jelly bean portrait of Ronald Reagan, and the crates that held a pair of giant pandas sent from the Chinese to Richard Nixon, writes Ella Morton.
In Idaho’s Cache National Forest, near the Utah border, lies one of the most geologically fascinating caves in the United States.
Though there is a danger in the wistful nostalgia that romanticizes the grandeur of past decades without also adjusting for social and technological progress, it’s hard not to draw a direct contrast between a period where our constructed world was built to withstand centuries and the present, where planned obsolescence is the norm.