Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure,

diving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 60, and we thank you for listening.

Man, episode 60, not bad.

Yeah, seriously, where's the time gone?

No earthly way of knowing in which direction we are going. I think it's going to be a fun show

You're back from a really awesome trip diving with Blancpawn and I'm back from a really awesome trip driving with Bentley. So we have kind of a main bulk of the show

is going to be kind of a trip report chatting about those two experiences. I think there's a lot to kind of dig into there.

But first up we're continuing. I think there's a lot to kind of dig into there.

But first up, we're continuing in our format of geeking out a bit on various clothes and accessories.

You've got some new stuff from Fisher and Baker?

Yeah, yeah, it's been sort of interesting.

As we've sort of evolved the show, we've started to incorporate a little bit more sort of clothing sort of urban

technical clothing and it's it's been kind of a fun area to explore and very

Fisher and Baker hasn't been on my radar I hadn't even heard of them frankly and I got an

email a couple of weeks ago from

a PR rep for this company, Fisher and Baker, and they're having an event here in Minneapolis

that they invited me to on June 1st and I said you know I'd love to come but I don't know anything about your your company and he said I'd love to send you a jacket to check out and so they sent me what they call their Kensington Shell and

it's it's sort of you know it hits that sweet spot that we both like that sort of technical but not technical

looking kind of product it's a shell as the name

or wind wear.

What's interesting about it is it's made from ventile or ventile cotton,

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