A few weekends ago I flew up to Anchorage to visit my brother. I always enjoy visiting him because we have such a good relationship. While there, we decided to go to Alyeska, both Saturday and Sunday for some snowboarding (Aaron skied). Saturday the weather was reasonable, although the mountain was pretty crowded. Sunday was a different story. Being that [...]

On the last day of August, I flew to Vegas for the day to go to my friend Svihla‘s wedding. Svihla and I worked together in Germany. I’ve always really enjoyed going out for drinks with him and his stammtisch group. This year, Svihla brought his wife-to-be over to get married in Vegas. The ceremony was short, sweet, and performed [...]

This past weekend I went to Palm Springs for the Salsa Mambo Festival. Prior to going to Palm Springs, I wondered why people go there because it’s in the middle of the desert. Now that I’ve been there, I’m still wondering why people go there. It’s ridiculously hot (it was 105F during the day and 90F at night), it’s tiny [...]

Although I’ve been twice before, this time was different. This time I went to gamble. I took a road trip Friday night with my special lady to Sin City. We had a luxury suite over looking The Strip in The Palazzo, 26th floor. Really nice room, sunken living room, 3 flat screens, spa shower and separate tub, pretty much pimp [...]

For my brother’s birthday this year, I thought I’d pay him a visit in his new home up in Chugiak, Alaska. I arrived late Thursday night, but much to my surprise, it doesn’t really get dark there. It was something like 7 or 8pm in LA, kinda dark, but not middle of the night dark. It’s always great seeing my [...]

I went down to visit my friend Alberto for the Mother’s Day weekend. His parents live in Tijuana and I was invited to spend Mother’s Day with his family. This was very interesting to me as a typical Mexican Mother’s Day is quite a bit different than in the States. First off, Mexican Mother’s Day is on Saturday instead of [...]

I arrived in Germany Friday, February 22, in the afternoon after one of the craziest things happened. On my way to check-in for my flight, I realized I left my passport at home. Awesome! So I first checked with one of the agents before attempting to haul ass home to get it. Being on the arrival level, there aren’t many [...]

Knowing how much my girlfriend loves Hawai’i and the fact that I have never been there, plus I’m heading off to Germany & Austria to go snowboarding, I decided it would be a nice Valentine’s Day surprise to take her to Waikiki for the long weekend. Needless to say, she loved the surprise and we had a great time together. [...]

So first off, let me just say that I ripped off the title of my blog from my friend Brad. Thanks buddy! I’ve been back just over 24 hours and all I can think about is being in Munich. Not only does Oktoberfest kick ass, but seeing all my friends and being able to spend time with them truly makes [...]

So I hopped on a plane and flew to Chicago for the weekend to meet up with some old grad school friends. E is one of my closest friends in the world and my former roommate in Germany and Ranger would probably die if he were to stop talking at any given moment, but we love him nonetheless. As both [...]