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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 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 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 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 11 (2025) – Influencer Game and Rainy Tours – Taking Pictures and Sushi Spot Review
Chrome crapped out. My iMac can’t handle it. I’m using Safari and it’s working fine though it’s an outdated Safari. Things run smoothly. I can write here in my blog. I can browse standard websites and watch Netflix. I can still play DotA. Chrome has been my browser for years. It knows me. I deleted…
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Week 1 (2025) – Houston Brewery Reviews and Family Xmas Love – Year Starts with a ton of Tours
It’s the first Monday of the year. I said I would write every Monday. The year started heavy with work. Four tours in a row. I’ve never done four tours in a row… However, I’ve done tours for three or four days straight (bachelor parties). People are hitting me up for bachelor parties this year.…
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September 2024: NFL Fantasía is BACK – Reaching A Million People with Videos – Aloha Shirt Coming Soon
OH YES! Start writing soon. I haven’t written as much as I said I would. I only have 4 stories in the San Diego Reader published this year. One of them was a cover. I like that cover. I like almost all my cover stories. There is another story credited to this year, but I…
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July 2024: Happy Birthday Cancer Women – Half a Million Views and more Tours – Free Paparazzi Book En Español
Happy birthday Cancer women! Happy birthday mom! Your birthday is tomorrow. You would’ve been 66. I miss you daily. I can’t believe it’s been five years. It’s a new life. Barely learning how to adult at 38. Happy birthday girlfriend! Your birthday was three days ago and it went great. We had a lovely dinner.…
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May Again: Bye Donatella – Bye 37, Bye – Hi More Work and Tours
She packed her things to leave. She has a lot of things in my place. She didn’t leave. But was about to. And like always. It was my fault. It was I who yelled to get out of my apartment. Telling the story and reasoning about it here wouldn’t make sense. You would only hear…
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April 2024: Great March, Could be Greater – Recognized Much and Merch – Bye Donatella!
I was walking in downtown Tijuana yesterday with my girlfriend when from behind me I heard: “Oh! It’s Matingas!” I turned around after hearing my name. It was an older gentleman I didn’t recognize. He identified himself as knowing me from Instagram, then it clicked. He had a group of people behind him. He was…
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May 16, 2023: 37th Birthday – So Many Tours, So Much Work – BorderKid Podcast and New Cover Coming Soon!
Welp shit. I’m 37. For years, my birthdays have brought misery with them. It doesn’t feel that way anymore. May is always money. It’s been like that for a while. Before the pandemic, I covered Gator by the Bay and made good money during May. There are a lot of events. I get busy in…
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Eternal March: Influencer Sellout – Book Presentation and More Travel – Warren, Ohio
I’m good with words. I’m not very imaginative, I can’t create a new world. But I’m good with words and storytelling. I have friends who are horrible at this shit. They will tell you a story for more ten minutes that could be summarized in a few words. And the whole fucking story is that…
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Tijuana I love you, but you are bringing me down – Richmond, Kentucky and Spartanburg, South Carolina – Influencer Package
Tijuana I love you, but you are bringing me down. Tijuana I love you… but you are bringing me down. I feel so stuck and alone. With nowhere to go but to the same place. And that same place is never the same. Tijuana is never the same. I leave for a weekend and nothing…
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February 2023: Waiting for Ambition – Lessons and Reviews of Book in Español – New Job is Iffy
I am doing one of my most hated things. Waiting. Just waiting. Waiting for ambition. How do people get ambition? I was supposed to be in the San Diego airport catching a flight right now. A flight to some city in the US. To do my new job. I thought I would already be doing…
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July 2022: Puppy Studio Cover – Thinking of Her – Food Influencer Gone Wrong
I’m happy but also feeling sad. I got sunshine but also debt in a bag. More gigs coming my way, more expenses to spend. It’s coming on. Everything seems to be going great for me. It’s so good, that I got that feeling of impostor syndrome. I work at a taco truck serving and sometimes…
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More and More Gigs! – All Type Content Creator, TikTok Addict – Disconnecting With Her Feels Great
Whoa. I swore I wrote something in June. But I haven’t. At all. Not even in this shitty blog. And June is almost gone. May was busy as F, and June continued. July seems like it will be the same way. It’s raining jobs! Alleluyah! It’s raining jobs… OH YEAH! Sing it. Not quite as…
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Drinking Beer with Don Cornelio for a Tv Show – Moving to Ensenada – Birthday Fun and TikTok
My birthday was great. It continued for days, basically until yesterday (a whole week later). Tony Tee got me tickets to go see Toros. He said it was my birthday present. He would have done it regardless of my birthday or not. Going to Toros with Tony is a blast. This time, Joe and Mayda…
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