The PENguin Blog

  We have just gotten in a significant consignment of modern and vintage Pelikans for the Holidays.   What’s new for this year  is a trove of absolutely new, as in never used, never dipped, unsold NOS M100s, M200s, M400s and M600s from the 1980s. These would make superb holiday starter pens for old and young, alike. Pair one of these with a journal and a gym membership (when and where safe) and you will be Giving the Gift of Health and Life.       For those who love the vintage pens of the 1960s and earlier, we have a full stock of 120s and 140s as well as 400 and 400NNs in green and tortoise as well as one green 400N.   And, as always for those who dive deeper, we have 100s and 100Ns in common and exotic colors.  Browse the website.

  Since the beginning of the pandemic I, who live to travel, have taken a grand total of two trips that kept me on the road overnight, one with my wife to our favorite nearby playground, in Mendocino, for three days back in April when it seemed that the Coronavirus was on the wane, and most recently a four day trip up to California’s Lost Coast, a trip that I did with my friend Danny Aarons, with whom I am also engaged in a major pen venture. (More on that another time soon.)   Apart from getting away, the trip had several goals, to explore roads that Danny, an avid motorcyclist, had long wanted to run, to get out and about on the many hiking trails in the region, and for me to take some pictures. We succeeded on all counts.   The trip, conceived by me and planned by Danny, took us along backroads from Berkeley to Boonville to Mendocino on the first day.    From there we went north up Highway 1 and US 101 to the Avenue of the Redwoods to Martolle Road through th...