About a year ago when I still smoked analog cigarettes, I smoked tobacco. I didn't smoke banana fosters, pina colada, or cotton candy. Just good old fashioned tobacco. So now that I am a vaper, I still want my tobacco flavors. I enjoy the occasional fruit or candy flavored liquid, but my "all day vapes" will always be tobacco flavors. I have found some pretty good ones along the way, but I am always looking for more where they came from. Today my search has taken me to the banks of the Vermillion River... Vermillion River E-Juice, that is. Let's take a look at their tobacco flavor called "Classic Blend" and see what it has to offer.

I love a good cafe mocha, but a good cafe mocha liquid is hard to find. I've tried a couple of house brands from different vendors in addition to the Cafe Mocha flavor from Halo with no luck. That is why I decided to start off with a smaller bottle of this flavor from Heather's Heavenly Vapes. It seems like in the vaping world, every effort to make this flavor involves combining a coffee flavor with chocolate and that is about it. As you probably know, cafe mocha is a bit more complex than that. It is an espresso and milk beverage with chocolate flavoring, and it may seem like I'm splitting hairs there but I'm not. Let's see if the folks over at HHV can get this flavor right.

At some point you begin to run out of new things to try at your local vape shop, so I decided to check out a couple of flavors from Vermillion River E-Juice on my latest trip to Indy Vapor Shop. Cherry is always a nice flavor, and from my personal experience in making e-liquids at home in the meth lab, it's not a hard flavor to make. That having been said, no flavor is easy to make well. Cherry just tends to be a forgiving flavor. It is easy to judge a vendor by their cherry because cheap cherry has the tell tale signs. It also being popular, if a company doesn't care about their cherry flavor, then they probably don't do very well on any of them. So... how does Vermillion River Mystic Cherry Jr stack up?

It has been a long journey down the path of vaping for me, and it all started with the old school Njoy Npro. I played around with some other over-the-counter gas station special e-cigs before eventually getting serious and deciding to step up to a better way of vaping. I did a lot of research and eventually settled on the V2 electronic cigarette. I chose them based on positive reviews I had read and the wide variety of available flavors to choose from. I started out with the deluxe starter kit that included 3 batteries, a charging case, and a passthru. I didn't plan to quit smoking entirely at the time, but that is precisely what happened. Let's take a look at the kit that got me there.

With all the talk of mods, tanks, atomizers, hybrids, and whatever else new is going on in the world of the electronic cigarette, what often gets overlooked is perhaps the most important part of the experience. You can have the best devices out there, but you're not going to get the most out of your electronic cigarette unless you have a good e-liquid. Halo Smoke Juice is not the cheapest e-liquid going, but it is one of the best on the market. It produces big clouds of vapor, carries a strong flavor, and packs a nice throat hit, the three essential ingredients of any decent e-liquid. Here are the flavors that I have tried and my thoughts about them, but first let's get into the price and where you can get them.

So, you're out there on the road trucking and you run out of supplies for your electronic cigarette or something breaks. It has happened to all of us truckers who also vape, and it can be a nightmare. So what is a driver to do? If you have a Rand McNally Intelliroute TND we now have a Vapor Shop POI directory to help you out. Just download this directory to your computer (below) and then upload it to your TND Dock software. Plug in your GPS with it powered on, and it will give you the option to import this POI directory to your GPS. This will give you a list of 50 vapor shops that carry everything from your favorite e-liquids to batteries, atomizers, and more.

I recently placed an order from Mountain Oak Vapors Premium Tennessee E-Liquid in hopes of trying out some of their flavors. Those of you who follow my blogs or videos or know me from Vaper Space know that I am a fan of tobacco flavors, but my girlfriend Ramona is not. She prefers fruit and sweet flavors, so this was more for her than it was for me. I also saw that they had a better price on the Vamo than did Indy Vapor Shop so I decided to pick one of those up from them as well. The best laid plans, right?

Thought you couldn't get a variable voltage tube mod complete with 2 batteries and a charger shipped to your front door for less than $50? Well, you were wrong. Unless, of course, shipments come to your back door. In that case you were right on a technicality. But you see where I'm going with this, right? I'm talking about the V-Unit from Vapow, the worst named electronic cigarette store on the web with the best price on version 1 lavatubes. You can check it out here on their website, and read my review below or skip straight to my video review at the bottom for those of you who don't like to read.

Well, we are halfway home in our "Bolt Into The New Year" contest and things are shaping up nicely with 11 people having entered their pictures into the contest. You can view all of the entries in our contest album on Facebook, but remember it is not too late for you to get involved. The winner will be the photo entry with the most "Likes" on Facebook on December 31st, so make sure you enter and share your entry on your Facebook page so your friends can like your picture and help you win the contest. Here is an update on the contest is shaping up so far, with our top 3 entries listed but some of the other contestants are not far behind.

Any time a trucker says "You're not going to believe this" you should take him up on the offer. If I weren't coming to you with proof of this story, I wouldn't even bother bringing it to you at all. But like you would demand to see the ticket from the driver who got "Nailed out in El Paso for going 132 in a 55 and he let me off with a warning ticket" you should expect me to proof up this story, and I will. Nobody would throw that warning ticket in the trash, and I wouldn't let this opportunity slide without a screen shot. Am I building this story up too highly? Not at all. You have to understand the convergence of circumstances, dare I say the cosmic alignment that had to come together to allow this circumstance to happen. Who knows, I may have even discovered what the Mayans were predicting with their calendar.

If you've been paying any attention, then you see that we have a vapor shop with truck parking listed in Ozark Alabama. Last week I got a load down to WalMart in Brundidge Alabama, so when I got done delivering I headed down to the Kangaroo Truck Stop in Ozark to take my break. I couldn't stop in there without going over to see our friends at Save A Smoker, and I wanted to pick up a couple of bottles of E-Liquid. The last juice I had purchased from them was in February of this year, and I only got one flavor. I decided to do a repeat on that one, and also get a couple of other flavors. Here is what I got and a quick word on them. Review video is located at the bottom of the article if you would rather just watch that.

I got started vaping with the Njoy Npro about 4 years ago. I used that for awhile until they reformulated the product, and I decided to shop around. When the Mistic came out at the Pilot Truck Stops I decided to give it a try, and I really liked it. I used it for awhile and I was able to stop smoking in the truck altogether, although I continued to smoke cigarettes outside of the truck. I cut back from 1 1/2 to 2 packs a day all the way down to 1 pack every 3-5 days. I no longer use the product at all as I have advanced to bigger and better things in the e-cigarette world, but I do highly recommend this product for someone just starting out.

I'm not sure what it is about the electronic cigarette that drives the anti smoking activists nuts, but I do have a few ideas. I'm sure that some of them are concerned about the potential health risks of the device, but there are a lot of behavioral choices out there that are "unproven" at best and potentially dangerous. Many of these things are not designed to replace another bad habit, but are instead an entirely new risk that is being introduced. And while you are not supposed to market electronic cigarettes as a smoking cessation device, one thing that nobody can deny is that both of these devices accomplish the same thing in different manners.

One of the most common frustrations of people who are attempting to switch from analog cigarettes to the electronic ones is battery life. Unless you have a passthrough or a personal charging case, it can be difficult to keep a fresh battery around when you are on the go. And of course, if you run out of batteries when you are out and about, you will be very tempted to stop and pick up a pack of smokes. Recently, I was able to get one heck of a deal on a Smoktech Bolt, and since I already have my preferred vaping devices, I decided to pass it along to one of our lucky readers. If you are a vaper that is frustrated with short battery life, than perhaps this is the device for you.

I pulled in to the Travel Centers of America in Knoxville, Tn (the one on the west side at exit 369) at about 2am on Sunday morning. Before I crash out, I decided to hop online for a few minutes. I see this burgundy mini van circle the truck parking lot, then head back up to the front and park in the car parking lot. I turned on the laptop, then went inside to use the facilities. I got something to drink, then headed back out to the truck. On my way back out, the van circles the lot again. Probably a prostitute, I guessed, but didn't think that much about it. I settled in to the sleeper, then grabbed the laptop to get online. And there, at the bottom of my available networks, was the following.