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January 2026 – New Year, New iPhone, More Work – Banned from TikTok – Kirby Brocoli Show Podcast
Weeks 51 and 52 of 2025 were spent in Houston. Mostly sleeping. I fell sick for the first few days and overslept my way through vacation. There is a homely feel when I visit my aunt. A sense of relaxation that, as a lazy mammal… I just want to sleep. And that’s what I did.…
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Week 50 (2025) – Wojtek and Lukaszk from Poland in Tijuana Tour – Music and Christmas – Busy End and 2026 Soon
The end of 2025 is near. In five days, I fly to Texas. I’m spending a bit over a week over there. Too much time. But I don’t have anything to do in Tijuana, and those were the cheapest flights. I had an awesome tour with Polish guys yesterday. It wasn’t a tour, more like…
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Week 47-48 (2025) – Family Visits Baja – Bucket List Life – 2026 Coming at Me Fast
This is post 700 in my blog. That’s some sort of an achievement. The rest of my life is about getting achievements. Finishing projects. Bucket list. I need to finish three books: Tijuana Adventure 2, The Best of my Work on the Reader, and the Tijuana photo print book. Excerpts of that are exclusively for…
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Week 45 (2025) – Dark Times – Getting Busier – Selfie with Ruben Albarran
I’m writing on a Friday. I don’t write here on Fridays. I’ll publish it on Monday. It’s been a weird couple of days. Lonely days. It’s been a weird week. Time change. I fucking hate the time change. Winter approaches. The sun rises earlier, and it gets dark by 5 pm. Stop changing time. The…
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Week 44 (2025) – Halloween 2025 A Flash That Flashes – Low Season to End the Year – First Paycheck… and It’s Gone
First Monday of the month. I paid rent. It makes me sad. It should make me happy. I have shelter for another month… but it just gives me big sad. Money comes, money goes. I got my first paycheck from my new job managing social media for two restaurants… and it’s gone. Rent and the…
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Week 43 (2025) – One Month in New Gig – Busy Social Media Weeks – Halloween 2025 Thwarted Plans
I rarely write my blog at night. It’s usually on Monday mornings with my second cup of coffee after reading emails and social media notifications. I’ve been busy this week, and it’s only Tuesday. I wasn’t that busy last week. But today I was (still am, hence writing at night). And yesterday I was busy.…
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Week 42 (2025) – Back to Food Photography – No Tours, No Money – 12K Followers on Insta
Instagram, as a photo application, is dead. It’s mostly video now (it has been for a while). Photos don’t look high-def. There is a need for a new platform that showcases high-quality pictures. What will it be? Patreon? Subscribe to my Patreon! I’ve been uploading A TON of photos for free. Spooky Season is here,…
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Week 40 (2025) – New Gig: Social Media Strategist – Full Moon #25 – Two New TJ Bars
I had the interview for the gig. It went well. More than well. The gig is mine. It doesn’t pay much, but it also doesn’t require me to do much. I’ll be crossing the border once a week to take pictures and videos and to get a free meal. Then I get to edit and…
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Week 37 and 38 (2025) – New York City Part 1 – Content Galore – Back to TJ and Broke
We got back from New York City last week, and I’m still processing it. I am broke, but worth it. I loved New York… I didn’t think I would. But I did. Seattle is a city that seems to be for me. Nerdy and millennial. New York is a city built for anyone… including me.…
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Week 36 (2025) – ABC Australia Podcast and all Podcast – 25 Full Moons and Off to New York – TJ Deserto and Social Animals
What a rollercoaster. My girlfriend rarely calls me. If she does, it must be something important. I was in the middle of a game of DotA and saw the call. I had to take it in the middle of the game. We still won. But that’s besides the point (it’s been a good win streak).…
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Week 35 (2025) – Second Anniversary – The Critic – September is Here!
This last week went by fast. And I don’t even remember what I did. I didn’t have a tour. I wasn’t that busy… but it went fast. I wrote this blog. I wrote my newsletter over at TijuanaAdventure.com, posted a couple of videos, went bowling, hung out with my friend’s dad, who is also a…
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Week 33 (2025) – Welcome to Matingas Substack – La Ballena Legend and Okay Week – TJ Top 5 Burgers, Top 5 Cocktail Bars
This last week was sort of shit. No tours. I would like to have two tours a week, please, so I can be happy with my finances. Not only that, but I also received several messages and emails requesting a tour. A bunch of follow-up questions. Even agreeing on a meeting time. And then… nothing.…
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Week 32 (2025) – Big Apple, 3 AM – Matingas Now on Substack – Bad Burger, Great Beer, and New Bar
New York in exactly a month. I’m excited. We’re excited. My girlfriend sends me dozens of TikToks about New York almost daily. I watch MOST of them. But there are too many. Many influencers have a whispery voice that I find annoying. I want to create my own content, not consume others. I have friends.…
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Week 31 (2025) – McMorris Burger Viral Success – 10k Followers on Insta, 20k on TikTok – I eat, I drink, I write, I am
At the beginning of last month, I was pretty depressed. A mixture of birthdays, sadness, life going by, and also finances. It seems like I do great, then the month ends, I gotta pay my bills and more… and it’s like I didn’t make any money. I drink too much and eat outside too often.…
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Week 30 (2025) – TJ News Food and Drink Review (Innato and Club Ocampo)- Toros de Tijuana Tours – Store Fantasy, Books, and Bookings
I don’t have any upcoming tours. A few emails requesting September or October… but nothing for August. Although I don’t have tours, I still have a lot of work to do. The Tijuana Newsletter is a self-proclaimed success. I enjoy writing it. It gives me an outlet to voice my opinion the way I want.…
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Week 27 (2025) – Drunken Unbirthday DotA Depression – More Content, More Patreon – Next Half of the Year
Ando sad. I’m the most depressed I’ve been in years. The worst day was Sunday. It stemmed from my girlfriend’s birthday. I usually get sad on my birthdays. But for the past few years, they’ve been alright. This time it was my girlfriend’s birthday that got me sad. She’s 35. The age is not the…
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Week 26 (2025) – Mom’s Birthday/Girlfriend’s Birthday – Halfway Through the Year – Ensenada Adventure Tours Text
It doesn’t feel like a Tuesday. It doesn’t feel like July already. It’s halfway through the year. It’s my girlfriend’s birthday. It will be our 2 year anniversary soon. Wild. She’s doing a baby shower style birthday (the day after) for her and her friends. They going to drink pink things and paint pink things.…
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Week 24 + 25 (2025) – Book Fair Closing – Wu Clan Ensenada and TJ Tour Adventure – Tijuana No! Live (concert photography)
Welp… I did it again. I got way too busy and I couldn’t blog last week. I had a tour early on Tuesday with a lovely couple with Disney tattoos. We weren’t suppose to drink. The husband had a tattoo appointment at 5 pm and you are not supposed to drink before getting a tattoo.…
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Week 23 (2025) – Book Fair Feria de Libro Tijuana – Met the Mayor – Influencer Hate
I’m busy as ffff. I snuck into the Feria del Libro Tijuana. And by snuck, I mean, I have a stand. Half a stand. Somewhat of a stand. Booth #26. It’s my brother’s booth. He did the screen printing for all their merch so they rewarded him with a booth. The book fair also used…
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Week 21 + 22 (2025) – Weird Shit Happens – So Much Content, So Much Work, So Many Tours – Ensenasty Adventure
Oooeee. I’m tired like a forty year old man. I had two tours in a row. They were both great clients like always. Yesterday’s tour was a couple from Riverside that are into Real Estate. We walked a lot. It was great, I love walking this city even though it’s not the most beautiful place…
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Week 19 + 20 (2025) – Coffee Shrooms for 40th Birthday and GF Vacation – Viral Tours and Videos – Viral Virus, I’m Still Sick
It’s my birthday this week. In three days. I’m turning 39 but I tell people I’m turning 40. I don’t feel like I look forty. I got a haircute yesterday. The dude before me said he was turning 35. Fucker looked much older than me. Or perhaps I look much older and I just don’t…
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Week 18 (2025) – Old Uncle Time – Two Tours and Random Shit – New Batch of Shirts!
New mouse! And… we lose even harder in DotA. Four games. Four losses. That’s the new mouse record. But… it’s SOOOO much better. This mouse is huge. And the right click works. And it has extra buttons because it’s a gaming mouse. I like it. Worth the $25 I paid for it. It’s Monday and…
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Week 17 (2025) – Chicagoans Bachelor Party Tour Featuring Rick Bayless – TikTok Live and New Books (coming) and New Mouse – Busy May and I’m 39
Ooooeee! What a Tijuana Adventure bachelor party tour! It was… legendary! Fucking Rick Bayless. What are the odds? What are the odds that a celebrity chef based in Chicago would be in a bar in Tijuana when I was touring Chicago boys around?! Seriously… the fucking odds… It was the cherry on the pie from…
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Week 16 (2025) – Bad April Almost Done, Don’t Give Up – Busy May Upcoming – New Books and Merch Ideas Also Upcoming
I had a great weekend. I was supposed to have a tour on Saturday. They paid the deposit. And… they canceled one hour before the tour. “Don’t worry, make your money” he said when he canceled. I’m not sure if he will re-book or if he will be back. His cancellation was sketchy. But hey.…
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Week 15 (2025) – April Got Better (and More to Come) – I Wore a MAGA Hat and Didn’t Like It – Full Moon 18
I’m on a TikTok live. I have much work to do. I can’t write and be on TikTok live at the same time. I get distracted. It’s hard to do. It was a helluva of a week. Yeah. That TikTok live consumed my time and I didn’t write my blog. I’ll be going on TikTok…
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