back to buenos

my time in cali has come to an end and today i find myself in one of my favorite cites: buenos aires. it wasn’t easy getting here, i almost didn’t make my bogota flight due to weather and the flight to buenos aires was completely full. i was given a seat in the last moment and my blood pressure finally took a break. this will be my 4th time in buenos aires. there are so many reasons why i love this city. i mostly associate it with the memories ive shared with friends in the past…(mostly spent over steak, wine and empanadas) but now its time to make new ones with some new friends. my friend aaron from LA is out here, we landed around the same time and spent most of the day cruising in scooters avoiding potholes and manic taxi drivers. we checked out ricoleta cemetery, roamed around the mini mansions/mosuleam and finally found evita’s grave. we cooled off with a tasty beer from nearby brewery patagonia hailing from the southern city of bariloche. we ditched the scooters and hopped on an uber back to our hostel and quickly made friends with an aussie - also named aaron - a brit, american, serbian, and a dutch. im not exactly sure who started it but we began to talk about our favorite films fro the next 2 hours and it was beautiful to see really, how all of us from different countries can love film so much along with hearing how different our opinions were about the film we loved. many beers and a very crappy shawarma later both aaron’s and i found ourselves at a dash berlin trance concert. had never been to a trance concert before but very glad i went. the place was packed and when the headliner came on everyone erupted with cheers and hands in the air. the next 4 hours the man kept spinning and twisting dials, morning light greeted us directly behind us as the night sky slowly lifted its veil. didn’t get back to the hostel until 9am, slept till 1pm. today is saturday and i am in buenos aires  

cali to cali

where do i start. lets start with these random heat/walking/mystery rashes ive been getting; how about i don’t. i’m currently in cali, not california. i came to cali, colombia on a whim and ive been whimming ever since. i really can’t tell you why im here, i vaguely remember a friend i met in a medellin hostel mentioning “cali is ok” and well, to be honest yeah, its ok. 

the city is known for its salsa but apparently salsa isn’t even native here. salsa actually hails from the big apple, new york city USA. i learned that tidbit from yesterday’s walking tour, which was…ok. fernando, our walking tour guide was a chill dude, i and some germans and an american girl named jess from chicago exchanged info with him and a few hours later we took advantage of a 2x1 valentines special cali deportivo soccer match. it was a lot of fun but instantly as i walked into the stadium i sadly remembered that they don’t sell beer at soccer events in colombia; tragic really, by the second half i caved and ordered an “aguila cero” and with that went my first non-alcoholic beer cherry. the match ended, the home team won, i said goodbye to the germans and came back to my hostel a different man.

i began writing this a few hours ago in a BBC brewery when my new friend jenn showed up. the writing stopped, a few more beers were consumed. a nap was taken and then i met jenn again in a salsa club which was fun and wacky. fun because of the locals who seriously are on a different level of salsa and wacky because of the insane amount of white tourists that flood the dance floor after 11pm. so much so that you can’t even see the locals. 

cali, ive only been inside of you for less than 2 days and yet i feel like ive traversed more broken slabs of concrete and dog shit than the ordinary tourist does in a month. thanks 

the year is 2020, off with IG’s head

the year is 2020 and with that another valiant effort to produce something with meaning. 2/3 of january is already in the past and yet my prose has nothing to show. the truth is that my writing hasn’t existed for for a while but my instagram feed however does have a few cool posts and there lies the problem.