I’m going to hell on purpose. I made up my mind. Next week, I’m getting on a bus, and going to hell.
I’m going to Mexicali.
It’s what I’m missing in Baja to complete a huge craft beer guide. Covering more than 50 breweries in the state.
Let’s see how it goes.
I’m also going to meet-up with a girl. Perhaps. I don’t wanna jinx it.
I’ve been wanting to go to Mexicali for years. Never had a reason to go. I still don’t really have a reason to go. I don’t want to force it. But I’m forcing it. I leave in 10 days.
I’m not driving. I’m taking the bus. Which I’m not thoroughly thrilled about. Mexicali is not a walkable city. It’s hot as hell.
Hence.
The hell.
My car is dead. I drove to Ensenada with SoupyGarbageJuice. A week or two before the trip, I filled the engine oil with a gallon. By the return of the trip, it had less than half.
Every time I drive Donatella, she burns through the oil. The engine is dead. I’m not sure what to do.
I’m leaning towards fixing it and selling it at the end of the year. No one is going to buy it all fucked up. Who knows if I’ll be able to sell it less fucked up.
It will be around $1,000 or more.
The dollar lost a bunch of its value. So it’s probably going to be more.
My teeth are fucked. I need over $1,000 worth of dental work. They aren’t that fucked. I need to get two molars fixed for $400. One is a bit urgent, the other I can take my time and pay when I have the money.
I need to extract my wisdom teeth and that’s a bit over $100 each. And I have amalgams that need to be refilled. $50 each. Not bad.
Dentist in Tijuana. Cheaper. Blog. SEO stuff. If I write about dental work in Tijuana people looking for dentists in Tijuana might end up in this blog.
So, if curious. I’m going to iDenta with dentist Gisela Zarazua. There are thousands of dentists in Tijuana. There are hundreds in my vicinity. There is a dental office below my apartment.
I contacted them by email. They responded that same day and quoted me their prices. It seemed expensive. So I posted on Facebook looking for a dentist. Gisela responded with a better price but a further location from me. The offices are by the Lincoln Statue.
Yes. There’s a Lincoln Statue in Tijuana.
I met Gisela over a decade ago when I lived in a different apartment in Tijuana. Though my roommate was gay, he pretended he wasn’t. And told me he had a crush on Gisela. Lies!
Gisela is a cute adorable woman. So I could see it. And back then, she was just a student.
The image of her just being a student stuck with me. So I thought she was the receptionist or assistant. Nope.
She is my dentist.
I’ve been going to female dentists for the past decade. I dated one of em… Out of five, I felt 3 enjoyed making me suffer. Gisela doesn’t. And one that blocked me because her ex-boyfriend bought my most famous Tj picture was also great.
That was a handful of a sentence.
The point is, new dentist by Lincoln. Dra. Gisela Zarazua. Here’s her dentist Instagram. To make an appointment, send her a message or contact iDenta.
I paid $50 for a deep cleaning and x-rays. I fucking hate the dentist. But it wasn’t bad. And my teeth… WHOA! The deep cleaning. I needed it so bad. It had been years since the last dentist visit…
Liquid sloshes in between my teeth. I can taste beer better. And they also look so much better though my teeth are still shit.
Then she hit me with all the rest of the work I needed and I was like fuck…
I’ve been making more money this year.
But also spending more money this year.
Paying student loans. Buying gear I don’t need. Drinking way too much. And I’m still not sure where the money comes from, but somehow I pull it off.
Do I fix my car?
Do I fix my teeth?
As of now, I can only afford one. And I’m going to get more tattoos…
Both the seafood cover story and my story about doing mushrooms in the baseball stadium got published. I did three photoshoots and a half for the magazine. That’s how I made most money in June.
Here’s the seafood cover:
And if you want to read my baseball Toros adventure, here’s that link!
June was indeed slow.
I had a tour this Saturday, that was already July. Tomorrow is the 4th. I don’t celebrate that day. I only did it once in Huntington Beach and that was enough.
And whoa.
July is empty besides the tour I just did, my plans to go to Mexicali, and my Global Entry interview the end of the month.
I think I’m getting a temporary roommate. Benito Carpintero, an American Jew living in Mexico. He wants to spend sometime in Tijuana. I want to fly around Mexico touring my book, photos, and other merch.
Oh yeah!
New merch!
Tijuana Adventure shirts. I still don’t have any good pictures of it. I don’t even have that many shirts left. Shirts for $15 dollars (or 250 pesos). I shall send some to my Patreons that I never do anything over there.
June 17. A month after turning 37. That’s me.
Do I get better with age?
Girls seem to think so. My ex of exes from almost two decades ago hit me up out of nowhere. Glad to see she’s still alive and busy, though she doesn’t sound happy. I’m sure she is fine. My other ex hasn’t hit me up at all. It sounds stupid to have like a tier of exes, but those are the two I’ve ever loved the most.
Love is hard.
Everyone thinks I’m dating my agent cuz she’s hot as fuck. But no. We are not compatible like that. And I believe is a mutual agreement that we are not.
My agent got me a gig. I think I fucked it up. But I got served amazing free seafood. And fucking abalone. Here’s that post.
I also went far to Deserto to try their beers and ribeye. Ribeye so worth, but it’s so far. Here’s that post:
I also went to Ensenada and Mariscos el Güero again!
And Wendlandt en el Sauzal.
Ensenada was with SoupyGarbageJuice (Derek). He paid for gas and tollbooths. The rest we split. We stayed at my friend Szavio’s casa famosa. Awesome weird house in Ensenada with a jam room. A lot of jamming happened. I regret not taking my bass.
I want to write the Ensenada Adventure as actual text to get paid. So I’ll save the details. But the pics are there. So many Gringos in Ensenada.
It’s the beginning of July. It’s a nothing Monday and a nothing 4th of July. But it won’t be a nothing month. The Reader owes me some money for photoshoots, so the month starts alright. I have 10 or so days to make more money before going to Mexicali. Then by August I might have a new roommate. I have to move everything in my apartment again. Which I don’t mind.
I just want to get busier. And I will.
What a 2023 so far.
I have a tattoo appointment in a couple of days. I need to get more gigs going for July. Or write more. Or do more photoshoots. I’ll be posting more on my Patreon.
So subscribe to that if you haven’t.
Buy my books on Amazon. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.
Subscribe to my YouTube. I’ve only been uploading shorts…
Support me on Patreon (and get goodies!) Hey… if you want to see me half naked…
Follow me on Instagram and book me for a photoshoot!
Follow me on TikTok just because it’s the thing we do in the future.
Book a Tijuana tour with Tijuana Adventure! This is going to be more expensive soon.
Read all my articles on the Reader. New cover out now!
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