I suppose the grade upside of merino wool clothing is that you are ready for any condition, any weather condition, whether really really cold, or really really hot.
For example, if it is really really cold, as long as you have a merino wool base layer on, assuming it is maybe a merino wool long sleeve, and also merino wool leggings… It might still be a little bit cold, but you’re certainly not going to freeze to death. 
Also… Just a quick trip down to San Diego the other day and now I’m back. And it was actually super clutch because man… MPG, miles per gallon, this is the ultimate key. When you’re in a pinch, and you can’t be fucked stopping by gas station, when you don’t want to, then, being able to coast and just milk a tiny bit of your tank, is so clutch because essentially, you could keep going without resting, especially when you don’t want to.
I think this is what people don’t understand about road trips, or going on the drives etc.… When you’re in a good driving flow, and you energy is high, you do not want to stop. And I think this is so difficult for people to understand Most fools were just watching the NFL, professional sports on TV etc., whether they like it or not are being bombarded by these dumb ads for range Rovers and all these other loser cars. And what I think I realize about cars kind of like professional skateboarding back in the day… It is more about selling an attitude, an ethos, a concept a lifestyle etc., Rather than the thing itself.
Style is overrated
I think also, a big thought that I had this trip down to San Diego and back was the notion of style, how it is overrated.
For example, I just watched this instantly insightful documentary called Dogtown and the zee boys, I just bought it or rented it in the Apple TV store, and it outlined the advent of modern day skateboarding, and it was super interesting because essentially the advent of skateboarding was actually rooted in surfing…
I don’t really know too much about surfing, but it becomes a very interesting lens to understand a lot of modern day popular culture. For example, the notion of “locals onlyâ€, is an insanely ridiculous one to me. Why? Nobody owns the waves! You cannot own the ocean! Look at how huge it is… How could anyone own it?
Waves are a limited desirable resource
So apparently the biggest issue here is that waves, are a limited precious commodity… Like for example every 10 minutes there might only be five good waves or so. And typically there’s only one person who could ride it per wave.
Therefore there becomes this position… Who gets to ride the wave who doesn’t. And there are these ridiculous stories of some of the local kids, when they would see people from out of town trying to “steal “their waves… They would throw glass at them, concrete bricks etc.
Ultimately, the reason why I find surfing to be not that interesting of a thing is that it doesn’t do anything for your martial courage, your lethality, should hit the fan and you had to go to battle or go to war! I would prefer to trust to have a bunch of bodybuilders, weightlifters, powerlifters, or strong men be on my hit squad, not a bunch of professional surfers.
Skateboarding
Also another funny biased… Why is it that apparently, you must wear vans sneakers to ride skateboards? A lot of kids don’t know that this one Ultramega corporation owns almost all of the clothing and sneaker brands, this company owns vans, supreme, the north face, etc. So when all these kids think that they are being unique and antic culture by wearing a pair of vans, no no no… They are just part of the same machine.