An embarrassingly late shout out to Audra of the long-running and great Nemu*Nemu comic. Ages ago, Audra sent us an awesome limited-edition Gocco-printed Field Notes notebook featuring Nemu and Anpan in Bob and Doug McKenzie garb, created in an edition of 15 to sell at a Canadian comics convention. The Canuckophile’s dream notebook references the album-only pre-song banter with Geddy Lee on “Take Off,” and we’re going to assume the root beer is a reference to Canada’s second-most-beloved-brothers.

Audra and her Gocco have been cranking out customized FIELD NOTES for a while now, and you’re in luck, the current “Up Up and Away” version is available now in the Nemu shop.

The Manly Tradition of the Pocket Notebook. By Brett & Kate McKay. Essential reading and the comment-thread is great too.

The photo above is from the brand new brick and mortar store of our very first online retailer, Three Potato Four. The new shop looks amazing and opens August 28th, if you’re in Philly, stop in and say hi to Stu and Janice. The lazy days of summer have been anything but lazy when it comes to adding new retailers to the Field Notes family! We have a big list to get through so off we go! We welcome our first retailer in Alabama, the nice folks at Auburn Hardware in Auburn. Heading over to Canton OH and the Malone University bookstore and then over to St. Paul MN and the nice folks at Micawbers Books. Moving on to Albuquerque NM and the lovely Farm Shop at Los Poblanos and then enjoying the sea breezes in Seal Beach CA where we find Golden State Goods. Taking a drive up the coast to Portland OR you’ll spot the fab new shop from Core 77, Hand-Eye Supply. Back in the Midwest in the Windy City, we welcome the Academy Bookstore at IADT Chicago and then we head back to PA and say hi to Trove General in Paoli. Across the pond we find Denim + in Bussum, The Netherlands and last but not least, we head down under and the fine folks at Division 2. Phew! A big welcome to all our new retailers!

Our new Neon Ice Pop Pack contains our Neon Ice Pop 3-Pack with three matching pencils (orange, yellow and green). The Field Notes feature 48 “summer sky” blue 3/16″ graph interior pages, and it’s all held together by our famous FN-09 “Band of Rubber.” They look great under a blacklight (as pictured), but you pretty much need to squint to look at them in regular light, too. More details and order info here.

If you’re on our email list, you ordered your Neon Ice Pops a few days ago, and they’re already on its way. Join our email list up in the top left-hand corner of the site!

COUNTY FAIR Box Set of All 50 State Editions

A special limited-edition complete set of 50 individual notebooks, one from each state, packaged in a custom box along with a 6 pack of Field Notes Clic Pens, a “BAND of RUBBER,” and a lovely First Place Ribbon to display next to your Championship Peach Cobbler, or to use as a bookmark in the set. Tied up in twine, the COUNTY FAIR Box Sets are $99 each and make a great gift for kids, or for recording your travels and learning about the U.S. of A. We’ll be using IL, IN, OH, PA and NY on a trip to the Adirondacks in couple weeks. Maybe more if we get lost.

Our Spring COLORS edition, Packet of Sunshine, comes with a small envelope full of American Marigold seeds of the “Crackerjack” variety. They worked out totally great for jrengelmann, just check out his Flickr set. There are just a couple COLORS subscriptions starting with Packet of Sunshine left available. If you start a subscription with those, you’ll also get the Summer COLORS edition, County Fair, right away, and then Fall and Winter too when they’re released. Use the coupon code MARIGOLD and save $20 while they last.

Ewan, John, and Jason, collectively Renegade Pencils, are on their way to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia in an ambulance. They’re participating in The Mongol Rally, partnering with Pencils of Promise to raise money to build three schools. When they get there, they’ll also donate the ambulance. Their blog features great photo, video, and text updates from the road, and you can follow their progress on this map. As of this writing, they’re in Kazakhstan and already have loads of great stories to tell.

We wanted to support the Renegade Pencils (and their cause) from the comfort of our air-conditioned office, so we outfitted them with special “Road to Mongolia” FIELD NOTES. These books are just like our regular graph paper books, but carefully translated into Mongolian, inside and out, by our new friend Otgonbayar at mongoliantranslation.com. It was no small challenge, but the wistful charm of our original text was preserved. We hope.

If you’d like to support the effort too, AND score a very-limited-edition notebook, you have two options. Hunt down the ambulance on the road to Ulaan Baatar, or order below. Only 400 3-Packs will be sold online, and $5 from each purchase goes to Pencils of Promise.

“OK, everybody make sure to use the bathroom, it’s a long drive and I dont want to be stopping every half hour.” A Field Notes Road Trip.

We can’t be sure but it looks like Bellhaven has most of the editions we’ve released. Thanks for the photo. Also, we’re proud to say we were the very first to come off the production line for a new, cool little promo item from our pals at Busy Beaver. You can check it out on the FN Facebook page. More on that soon.

Here’s some great coverage of Brimfield’s summer offering from the good people of A Continuous Lean. So awesome. I had an INCREDIBLE time there a couple months back, and am enjoying my treasures hourly. Here’s a little something I got at Brimfield, for two bucks. Two bucks.

That’s my way of carrying extra Field Notes, in the bag, or on the road.