Category: Stowaway

• Extreme Cammock King: Man Takes Hammocks and Camping to the Extreme

  

  There’s camping, there’s hammocking, and then there’s cammocking—that is, opting for a hammock while camping. Then, of course, there’s extreme cammocking: suspending a 2,000 square foot hammock of weaved rope over a 400-foot canyon. These woven hammock-like nets are also known as space nets. To Andy Lewis, they’re called thug mansions because, like a 2Pac […]

  olsejess

  March 2, 2017

  Feature Writing, Stowaway

  2Pac, Adventure, andy lewis, Cammocking, hammock, highline, indonesia, sketchy andy, slacklife, slackline, Space net, Thug mansion, Utah, weave, woven

• The Blind Cafe: The Enlightening Experience of Dining in the Dark

  

  It’s 2007. American songwriter Rosh Rocheleau and his band—then called “Rosh and One Eye-Glass Broken”—were touring in Europe. Rocheleau stumbled upon “Café in the Dark” in Iceland, a restaurant where blind servers brought food to diners, who ate completely in the dark. The experience stuck with Rocheleau. “The powerful part is I had no idea […]

  olsejess

  March 2, 2017

  Business, Stowaway

  blind, blind cafe, Colorado, dark, dining in the dark, Europe, puppies, Rocheleau, Rosh, Rosh and One Eye-Glass Broken, social innovation, The blind cafe