Brendan Leonard Recommends You Buy The Newest, Lightest, Shiniest Gear Today Or You Could Die Out There

Weekend Essay: Buy Fancy, Expensive Gear. OR ELSE.

There's a single paragraph in Yvon Chouinard's Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of A Reluctant Businessman in which he talks about solo expedition kayaker (and grandmother) Audrey Sutherland, who at that time had paddled more than 8,000 miles around the world. One of the quotes attributed to Sutherland is one of the main things I took from the book:

"Don't spend money on gear. Spend it on plane tickets."

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