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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.…

    Matingas
    October 28, 2025

  • 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…

    Matingas
    September 1, 2025

  • 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.…

    Matingas
    August 5, 2025

  • Week 28 (2025) – Changed Website and New About Me – San Diego Date Day – Tijuana Adventure Newsletters

    I changed my website. I changed my attitude. How does it look? Let me know. The start of July was slow. Well… it started with a great tour that paid me double, but then it slowed down. It was my girlfriend’s birthday, and I did nothing but make sure she was happy. And then I…

    Matingas
    July 16, 2025

  • 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…

    Matingas
    June 4, 2025

  • 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…

    Matingas
    May 9, 2025

  • 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…

    Matingas
    May 2, 2025

  • 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…

    Matingas
    April 18, 2025

  • Week 14 (2025) – Shit April Continues – iMac Dies and Revives in Sonoma (OCLP) – Okayish DotA Team and TikTok Lives

    Ooooeee shit! What a horrible start to April. I was going to write about how happy I am because I finally got an SSD external hard drive and I did Open Core Legacy Patcher and updated my iMac to Sonoma. DotA was running great. I downloaded the new Luminar “Neo” and it was working smoothly.…

    Matingas
    April 11, 2025

  • June 2024: Seattle Romantics – Tourists, Pinballs, Food, and Beer – Halfway through 2024 and More Tours

    It didn’t rain one single day we were in Seattle. It drizzled one morning but we were snoozing. We slept until late and still manage to squeeze so many things in our Seattle visit. It went great. I’ve been video blogging it on all my medias. It barely gets views. But that’s okay. I like…

    Matingas
    June 17, 2024

  • 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…

    Matingas
    April 18, 2024

  • 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…

    Matingas
    January 29, 2024

  • 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…

    Matingas
    January 4, 2024

  • 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…

    Matingas
    December 4, 2023

  • 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…

    Matingas
    September 11, 2023

  • 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…

    Matingas
    August 3, 2023

  • 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…

    Matingas
    May 16, 2023

  • 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…

    Matingas
    March 29, 2023

  • 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…

    Matingas
    March 1, 2023

  • 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…

    Matingas
    February 9, 2023

  • 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.…

    Matingas
    January 4, 2023

  • December: CDMX Beer Adventure, TikToking in La City – Querétaro Huapango Wedding – Tijuana Adventure en Español!!!

    December is flying by. And not in a good way. It started with my flight back from my adventure. And I returned ill. Very ill. It started the day before my flight. I was bedridden with diarrhea and a fever. Meds made me feel better. And I needed it before the flight. I was sick…

    Matingas
    December 8, 2022

  • November Before CDMX: TJ Cover Story (again) – SAD – Infinity Content

    I woke up before sunrise at 4 something a.m. It’s cold out. It’s cold in. My apartment is freezing. I’m SAD. Seasonal affective Disorder. It happens every winter and I fucking hate it. I hate daylight savings time. No reason for humans to do that anymore. And I miss her. I miss waking up next…

    Matingas
    November 19, 2022

  • November 2022: Halloween Traditional Album – Podcast Goes TikTok Viral – CDMX Soon

    Here we go again. Post 621. Can you fucking believe that?! November 2022. The year is almost over. I go to Mexico City for the last week of November. I’m covering my friend’s wedding in San Joaquin, Querétaro. I bought the plane tickets months ago. I’m not sure where I’m staying. I’m not sure what…

    Matingas
    November 3, 2022

  • Busy October – TikTok Addiction – Tours, Photoshoots, Love, and More

    Oooeee. October has gone very fast. I got a bunch of gigs. Mostly doing tours. But some photos. And more. I got popular on TikTok. I’m still with my girl and sometimes, the sun or light hits her in such a way, that I look at her and fall in love a bit more. My…

    Matingas
    October 19, 2022

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