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If you’re lucky enough to live in Midcoast Maine– or if you've had the opportunity to visit– chances are you’ve seen our delivery vans around route one. But did you know there’s more to them than making special deliveries around our great state?

Their names are Box of Rain and Sunshine Daydream, named after a few of our (other) favorite Grateful Dead songs. For the past five years, they have spread joy wherever they go! The SPG (smiles per gallon) on these babies is off the charts!

“Driving down the road and making people smile embodies the Mexicali Blues Experience!” says Co-Owner Kim Erskine...

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Meet Mike, the amazingly skilled creator of our killer tie dyes! These unique dyes are more intricately patterned and boldly colorful than any others we’ve ever seen (and we’ve been digging tie dye for a good long while!), so we were stoked when he recently came to replenish our stock of these terrific tees! One […]

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Mexicali Blues has just unveiled a new delivery vehicle that matches the Mystery Machine in grooviness, and just might rival LL Bean’s Bootmobile in SPG (Smiles Per Gallon)! “Driving down the road making people smile embodies the Mexicali Experience!” says Co-Owner Kim Erskine. Mexicali’s new TieDyeMobile is a 2015 Mercedes Sprinter delivery van adorned all […]

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Tie Dye is the ultimate in creatively cool style because there are no rules–the artistic options are pretty much limitless, provided you can get your hands on all the crazy colors you’re imagining! 

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When we think of tie dye and where it might have originated, the first image that often comes to mind is the freewheeling hippie lifestyle of the 1960’s. Today, many of us who wear tie dye feel some connection with that peace-loving hippie spirit! You might be surprised to learn that the history of tie […]

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