Two tours in a row last weekend. And what a week I had.
What a week for 2025.
What a week for Trump. All the Epstein shit!
Millenials! The world seems to end again. And I’m here doing tours and having fun times in Tijuana and getting paid to do it.
July ends more than okay. And I sold my old lens. The 18-35mm/1.8f Sigma lens for Canon. A beautiful, heavy beast of a lens. One of my all-time favorite lenses. It will be in my top 5 lenses ever. I love that lens.
But I barely take photos nowadays. I barely even touched that lens. I don’t even have a Canon camera. It will have a better time in the hands of other people.
I still have my Sony, though I want an upgrade. I want an upgrade in lenses as well. But everything is video.
I need to do another video right now. But I just finished the video for an all-you-can-eat sushi for 300 pesos:
It’s your standard Mexican Suchi. It ain’t bad, but it isn’t good. But for 300 pesos, yeah, that’s way too cheap. I don’t think they’ll have that offer for much longer. Or who knows.
They never brought me my nigiris. And they ran out of tuna. I still got my money’s worth and more. So I was happy. Horrible service.
They would be way better if they had 300 pesos for a limited menu of some sort. But it’s all you can eat of almost everything. Of course, I went straight to the sashimi and nigiris.
They never brought me my nigiris.
Oh well.
There are THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of restaurants in Tijuana and another one opening daily. This is the type of shit I should be typing for the Tijuana Newsletter #4.
That seemed like a good idea during my downtime. And I’m so busy. I still have to finish another video. And perhaps go on TikTok live because Ozzy died.
I photographed Ozzy several times. He always looked confused. Like he didn’t know where he was.
A friend of mine from that time told me a story once (we still keep in touch). He was one of the designers of the Osbourne house for their reality show. He told me that Ozzy would enter a room and ask where he was every time. They would tell him that he was in his new house in America for his reality show. And he would simply walk to another room 20 minutes later and ask the same thing.
That was sort of my experience with him. They were leading him through the airport. And he was just going along. Perpetually fucked in a state of drugs and bliss. Or at least that’s what it seemed to me. But what do I know? I only photographed him a few times for a few seconds.
His family was nice. Jack, Sharon, and Kelly were all nice. But of course, they had a reality show, so they had to be.
I should use my Sony. This post needs a picture, and I don’t have any new pictures. Perhaps a picture of Ozzy will do.
The picture is from January 24, 2010:
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I did it!
I finished the other video.
This tour had a lot of drinking.
A lot of drinking!!!
Sidenote:
Doing videos takes me around 6 hours. An hour or two of filming. Then an hour or two of file transferring and editing. Then an hour or so of writing the script and reading it (sometimes there is no script, but I write it in my head). Around 6+ hours to do a video. I charge $40 an hour. Videos are $180 to a nice round $200. If people want to videos, I don’t do collabs. I charge money and give you the video as I see fit.
I still rather get your support and not be a sellout. Even if you pay me for a video… I’m going to publish my opinion.
It happened last night!
I’m still trying to process it. But it’s going to be a great time.
Yesterday, before Netflix and Chill, we hit confirm.
And bought tickets to fly to New York from San Diego. We are flying to Newark, so meh… But round plane tickets via United were only $177 (no bags). Round flight to JFK was around $240. Flights to New York are cheap.
And here is the trick… we’re flying on a red-eye on September 10th, so we arrive on 9/11. Tickets to fly to New York are cheaper around those dates. The memorial is on the way from Newark to Brooklyn. I’ll try to stop by and pay my respects. I remember where I was when it happened… and my brother was working in New York at the time…
Now my cousin lives there so lodging will be free. He is hooking it up with a basement living room that also functions as a guest room, I guess. And I also have more friends over there. Or I could afford a cheap hotel.
But we did it!
Bought tickets to New York City.
My first time… I’m excited. I want a lot. She wants a lot. We will do a lot. And if it goes as well as it went in Seattle… then these are going to be my happiest memories of 2025.
And it has been a great 2025. Thanks to my clients and general support, I can afford a reasonably comfortable poor life. I get to travel once a year to a different city. I get to eat and drink nice and healthy. I can afford my rent. I can pay my bills… I owe the water bill. I need to pay ASAP.
And!!!
And!!!
I can afford new Tijuana Adventure shirts!!!
The mock is not done yet, but it will be The Long Bar La Ballena tank top shirt and tote bags.
Making 24 shirts and 40 tote bags. Shirts are $25 and totes are $20. Best quality. Only premium quality. Best print by Serijuana.
That design, but on a tank top and a tote bag! Summer time YO!
And New York during the beginning of Fall. Perfect time to visit. I’ll yell it out of my balcony.
And I did.
I love my girlfriend.
I literally yelled it out of my balcony. “I LOVE NANCY FABIOLA!” I screamed almost as loud as I could. I’m thinking I used around 90% of my volume. Not that I love her to 90% but it was around 10 pm and we were watching Club de Cuervos. The soccer coach of the team falls in love with the owner, and all the crazy shit someone in love does that he wants to shout it from a mountain top.
And I said I would do the same. Except from my balcony. In that very moment.
And I did.
I walked out to my balcony and shouted loud as fuck.
My most watched video from this week was my reaction to Owen Wilson saying Tijuana is in his plans for the rest of his life on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. An hour or two after I posted that video, it was announced that The Late Show was canceled. That video has over 200k+ hits. Technically stealing. Usually not the shit my social media is about. And I just added a 5-second clip of me fake reacting at the end.
The other video that has over 100k is the video of me crossing to San Diego with my girlfriend. You never know what the algorithm wants. Just feed it constantly until it gets satisfied.
I get recognized more consistently each time. And it’s only going to get worse. I’ve been blogging about it. I’ve been getting ready for it.
All I want is money from it. Fuck the fame. Let me get rich and disappear.
(But I love you all, clients, fans, friends, and even the haters)
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