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Tijuana Adventure Beer Guide 2025
I’ve been working on this guide for years and it is not complete because things change in the beer game so fast. This guide will constantly be updated until I publish it for 2025. With your support, I don’t want to stop in Tijuana but also cover Ensenada, Mexicali, and the rest of Baja. A…
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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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May 2024: Tijuana Beer Guide 2025 – Haters and Fans – More Gigs, More Jobs, More Merch
I’m going to be 38 in a month. I’ve been writing my blog a couple of weeks before the month in the title, no idea why. I write when I feel like writing and when I have the time. I got published twice this week. First article I got some nasty comments. But hey. At…
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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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March 2024: Photo & Beer Crash Course – Paparazzi en Español – Bye Tijuana… !
I finished the translation of my Paparazzi Book. It will be in Spanish coming soon! Hopefully, by the end of March. When Karlha finishes the edit. You can buy the English version on Amazon, here! It took me the month of February to translate it. Me tomó el mes de febrero acabar la traducción. You…
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February 2024: 11 Years in the Reader, SD Mag First Time – Social Media Lives – Tijuana Adventure Souvenir Shop
I’m on TikTok live. That’s what I was doing when I started this blog. It went poorly. I got distracted and didn’t write what I wanted to write. I just went on TikTok live and talked to myself for a bit. Two people stayed for a while and asked about celebrities, and I showed them…
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January 2024: Top 10 Mexican Craft Beers of 2023 – 2024 Starts with a Cover – Houston X-Mas Vacation
Hey. I’ll write all of this tomorrow. That’s what I always tell myself. Let’s see if tomorrow I’ll write it. It’s tomorrow. It rained all morning. My girlfriend went to work. I spent the last days of the year with her. I spend the first days of the year with her. I still like her…
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December 2023: Mexicali Beer Fest (Photo Album) – SD Mag Published – No Real Job, Just a Lot of Work for 2024
AHH!! It’s December already! I’ve been wanting to write my blog since weeks ago, yet I didn’t. I’ve been wanting to write to my tía in Houston since September, yet I haven’t. I’m leaving to Houston soon! December is here! I miraculously made it all work! I don’t like using the word miraculously or using…
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November 2023: Halloween Mega Photo Album – Beerfluencer Status Achieved Mexicali Beer Fest Soon – Broke, Sad, and Rejected
I’m sad. I woke up sad. Did a bunch of shit posting. Then played F-Zero. Crashed. Got sad again. I’m sad over the usual shit. I’m broke. And I have no income or job prospects. But I also woke up sad because it’s Day of the Dead. And I woke up with my mom in…
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October 2023: CDMX Beers – Depeche Mode Shirtless – Support Me on Patreon!
I have a new patron and I’m not sure who he is. That’s new. Thank you, stranger. I should believe in myself. Jackie Bryant’s blog is back after maternity leave. She is a fantastic cannabis writer and now, a motherhood writer. I miss my mom. Jackie inspired me. Not only is her blog fantastic, but…
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September 2023: The Last of the Bumble Matches – Full Blue Moon Accidental Romance – Mexicali Cover Done, But Need More Gigs, and Tours
Monday, September 11th, 2023. Never forget. It’s been 22 years. Where were you? I was in Middle School in Querétaro. No one in the classroom found out what happened until they went home later that day. I was pulled out of the classroom. My mom was in tears. My brother lived in New Jersey and…
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Late August 2023: Tinder 1500 Pesos Drama – Tours and Photoshoots – Muay Thai Training
Typical of me. I’m waiting for the cover to drop. All the beers in hell is getting published next week. I already got paid. I already spent the money. And I’m just waiting for it. Instead of writing more. I have several articles in mind. The ideas are written on my whiteboard. I do nothing.…
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August 2023: Power Tripping Fucking Pig – Benito the New Roommate – Drinking Beers in Hell with Little Satan
Well… It happened again. It’s been almost a decade since it happened. But it happened. I was thrown into the cell of Zona Norte for committing no crime except standing up for my rights. Cop fucked up and he knew it, but he doubled down. He wanted me to apologize. He then told me a…
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July 2023: I’m Hell Bound (Mexicali) – Tijuana Dentist and Fucked Up Car – New Roommate or New Girlfriend?
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…
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June 2023: Most Insane Bachelor Party and More Tours – Seafood Cover Story – Tripping Balls at the Baseball Stadium
I’ve never done mushrooms in a stadium before. I love going to Toros. Going on shrooms… that’s something else. Like I said in my previous blog, life is going into insanity. It’s only been three weeks since I turned 37 and every weekend has been some crazy great shit. So great… that I decided I’m…
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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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May 2023: Shirtless in Zona Norte (tour) – Baba Commandant and The Manding Band Concert (and tour) – Bisho has Diabetes, I’m Doing a Reality Show
I walked shirtless at 3 a.m. from the Zona Norte clubs to my apartment. Her fake name was Arianna and she was a Zelda fanatic. She came from Monterrey to make money as she finished her Master’s in nursing, or so she told me. I was wearing my triforce shirt, matching my triforce tattoo. She…
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Mid-April 2023: KARma Quit my Job – Bachelor Party Tours – Zona Norte for the First Time in 4 Years
It was snowing in the Chicago airport during my connecting flight back from Columbus, Ohio. Snowing in fucking April. That’s the title of a math rock song I wrote in college. Here it is. It’s one of my oldest YouTube videos. 14 years ago. Shit. In the airport I was thinking over and over: “I…
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April 2023: Atlanta – A Baja Fantasy – Beers Around the World
Atlanta, I barely know you. But I like you. It’s one of my favorite shows: Atlanta, with Donald Glover. And I don’t mind the sports teams there. I don’t like them. I don’t dislike them. I like Atlanta. Fuck the airport though. That fucker stressed me out on Monday morning. The line to security was…
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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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March 2023: New Travel Job Started (I’m flying to KY) – Tony Tee Cover Story – Box of 50 Books for Sale and Photo Gallery
It’s the last day of February, my brother’s unbirthday is today. Or is it tomorrow? Both? He’s a leap year kid. So he gets no birthday in 2023. He is celebrating on the 1st of March. I’ll post this on the 1st of March. I wrote a cover story. That’s how I survived February. It…
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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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January Recovered – New Job, New Book, New Life – Tours, Photoshoots, and Presentations
I’m doing nothing but waiting again. It sucks. I got offered the job. I accepted it. I’ve done all the paperwork and tests. I’m still not scheduled to work. They let you know ahead of time, but it’s almost February and I have no idea what days I’m working or not. I’ve gotten four emails…
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Nothing but Waiting – Sad, Sadder, Yet Okay – LA Trip for Job Opportunity, LA Beers
I’m doing nothing but waiting and I hate it. It was a busy weekend of work training and I liked it. I rather be busy. I’m waiting on the e-mail with the job offer. Or the job rejection. They paid me to drive up to LA, they paid for my hotel, and they paid me…
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2023: Weird Start and a New Job – Of Houston and Houston Beer – Still a Writer, 50 Copies of Book in Español
I need to write and I still don’t. I finished a Hunter S. Thompson book during my break. It inspired me to write. He repeats himself so much. I repeat myself so much. He made it seem easy. Just write. And that’s what I will do. But I have my new job in my mind.…
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