
Still Thinking About Everyone on your Christmas List?
By Max Hartshorne
GoNOMAD Editor
Here are some new ideas for gifts that might just hit the right spot, or buy them for yourself this strange year.
Rick Steves Europe’s Europe page a day 2021 Calendar
Every year I like getting this calendar to remind me and everyone about my favorite continent on Earth, and how soon it will be until I can visit there again! And who is better than travel maven and all-around good guy Rick Steves to do it?
Turn each page of either of these 2021 calendars and give yourself a little travel inspiration every day!
365 Days in France Calendar
La belle France, 12 months a year! Alluring and ever-charming, it’s only natural that France is the world’s #1 tourist destination.
Highlighting a different region every month, this calendar is a yearlong celebration with hundreds of photographs of the land, the culture, the undeniable romance.
There are rolling fields of ProvenÇal lavender. Caramelized canelé in patisserie windows—the perfect treat to enjoy in the shade of Paris’s Jardin des Tuileries. Lush farms and vineyards in the Loire Valley. And many more inspiring photos!
Rick Steves and Europe 2021 Calendars $15.99
Here’s an Easy Way to Remember What to Pick Up at the Store
With 150+ icons of popular grocery items, all you have to do is circle what you’re out of! Fun & easy to use for all, from busy shoppers seeking a smarter way to make lists, to parents looking for fun ways to involve the kids in the kitchen.
Remember what you need at a glance: Our brains process images 60,000 times faster than text. Speed up your grocery trips, and turn your grocery shopping into a breeze!
Visual Grocery List for the Fridge $8.99
Filter Your Water with Multipure and Save at the Grocery Store!
Multipure’s Aquamini provides powerful filtration in a compact size, designed for portable and travel use. Its small countertop footprint makes it the perfect portable filtration solution to filter drinking water in dorm rooms, hotels, and recreational vehicles.
The Aquamini features a stainless-steel housing and is designed for easy installation and countertop use only. The Aquamini features a 250-gallon capacity replaceable Solid Carbon Block filter.
As evidenced by independent laboratory testing and the certification of Solid Carbon Block filters, Multipure has been successful in developing the technology to produce filters that provide greater chemical adsorption and mechanical filtration. These activated carbons are effective in reducing disinfection by-products (DBPs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), PCBs, MTBE, and many other contaminants.
Multipure Aquamini Water Filter $195.00
Here are some Spirits for You To Enjoy in the Company of One or None
Diplomatico Rum from Venezuela is an authentic blend of rums aged for up to eight years. Versatile, Mantuano is ideal for mixing in cocktails while also maintaining its complexity for those who prefer to drink it neat. Opening up with aromas of dried plums, oak, and a delicate spiciness, it is complex and well-balanced on the palate, following on with notes of dried fruits, wood, and vanilla. Diplomático Mantuano ($24.99)
Broken Shed Vodka contains two of New Zealand’s finest waters, natural mineral water from deep in the Pisa Mountain Range in the South Island and sparkling spring water from the North Island.
These pure waters are blended with a whey protein distillate, sourced from grass-fed New Zealand cows. The result is an environmentally friendly, GMO-free, gluten-free, high-quality vodka.
Broken Shed Vodka ($24.99)
Chamucos Tequila was originally conceived in 1992 by two friends; the Oscar-nominated Mexican film director, Antonio Urrutia, and his close friend, a hand-blown glass bottle artist/ producer, Cesar Hernandez. U.S. Importer, Mark Howard, was interested in creating his own tequila brand and saw a bottle while visiting Cesar’s glass factory.
Chamucos Tequila was originally produced and bottled as Reposado only. The recipe/formula was the collaboration of the group (Cesar, Antonio and Mark) lead by renowned Master Distiller, Ing. Hector Davalos.
Tequila Chamucos ($49.99)
Tru Earth Eco-Strips: The Smartest Way to Clean Laundry
Each laundry strip packs ultra-concentrated, hypoallergenic, eco-friendly cleaning power into a tiny, pre-measured strip of liquidless laundry detergent that you just toss in the wash. This a great idea to save SO MUCH plastic waste from all of those bottles!
Its low-sudsing formula works in all types of washing machines, including high-efficiency (HE). The smart hypoallergenic laundry detergent formulation effectively seeks out and dislodges dirt molecules and stains, keeping them in suspension until they are rinsed away. It makes your laundry washing chore easier, healthier, more economical, and much kinder to our planet.
- Eliminate one billion plastic jugs (you read that right!), saving 700 million from going to landfills
- Save truck fuel and CO2 equivalent to taking 27 million cars off the road for a day, or planting nine million trees
TruEarthStrips $109 for a one-year supply!
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