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11.10.09My Life Is Threatened In Colombia (2 of 2)The second time I felt my life threatened in Colombia was more of a psychological scare than the first. The Colombians that are in nice clubs (ones with cover charges) are upper class. They have money or their families do. So when I set out to go to one of the nicest clubs in the capital city, Bogota, I knew I was going to be interacting with a different class of Colombian. Especially when I was paying the equivalent of $25 US dollars just to get in the door, an astronomical sum by Colombian terms. This time I was accompanied by 3 Australian ...
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11.09.09My Life Is Threatened In Colombia (1 of 2)I was in a big club in Cali, Colombia named Mangos. I had come with a big group from the hostel. The club wasn't very full that night so we were able to get a table right next to the dance floor. I'm a pretty terrible dancer but in Colombia I had taken a liking to salsa. I like mostly that it's a very interactive dance so you can just grab a girl, pull her on the dance floor and go for it. I liked to try to get the girls laughing by spinning them because it took the focus off ...
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06.01.09What Was I Thinking? A Short Story From Cordoba, ArgentinaAs I sit in the flat bed of gray and rust colored pickup, I think to myself, "My mom isn't going to like this story." Sitting next to, and across from me, against the four corners of the flat bed, are three newly acquired friends from the hostel. We all share in the sentiment that this is not a good idea. One of my friends hands our future driver his camera to take a photograph. I smile. Moments earlier I was standing, firmly on the ground, outside of a club. Moments earlier I had a firm grasp on the direction of my life. ...
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02.08.09Paragliding In Medellin, ColombiaParagliding is equally as awesome as Medellin, Colombia. I’m not sure if the video really does it justice. But if you’re in Medellin you should check it out. It cost me: 80,000 pesos - roughly $34! The ride lasts: 25-30 minutes Company to go with: I booked with Zona de Vuelo through the Blacksheep Hostel, (which I highly recommend also).
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09.18.08My Panama Hospital Adventure; Rapid, Natural Fat LossDid Lourdes Send Me To A Panamanian Hospital? Both Clay and I have gotten sick in Panama. Clay got the sniffles and I became deathly ill and wound up in the hospital. Sometime between 2-4 AM on a Saturday morning, I woke with a start. I needed the bathroom and I needed it bad. I was doing what my brother terms the "double dragon." In lemans, it was coming out of both ends simultaneously. By 8 o'clock that morning, I had been back and forth between my bed and the bathroom more than a supermodel on a coke binge. Things were not right ...
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07.29.08Randy Pausch’s Last LectureI found this on another blog which you might also like: Get Rich Slowly. Please watch this if you haven't already seen it. It might change your life. Randy died last Friday, July 25th 2008. This was his last lecture. This is for all my friends and family.
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07.11.08Near Death Experience At Angel Falls, Bass LakeYou Don't Know You're Living Until You Feel Like You're Dying It's hard to describe the feeling you get when see your friend slip over the edge of some rocks and disappear into the unknown. It's kind of like how the phrase "Holy Fuck!" would feel if it were an emotion. The last time my heart sank that low was when the Chargers lost to the Patriots 24-21 two years ago. And that was just a football game that my favorite team had lost. At this moment, I was losing one of my favorite people. Slightly worse than watching this When the Chargers blew their home playoff game after ...
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05.04.08The Real Life Tony HawkWhat is 3 feet tall, has 4 wheels and scares the shit out of me? A skateboard. Yes - a little recreational board that a lot of 3 year olds can ride. I never owned a skateboard growing up and it's obvious. My mom always thought they were too dangerous so she never allowed me to buy one. I had friends who would ride but I stuck to my bike; which is somehow safer? Maybe my mom was just scared of the skater image. I'm not complaining. I was happy enough to get my ...
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