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Category Archives: Trips

Museo MARCO: Water

Check this video I made from my last visit to the MARCO Museum in Monterrey, México

High quality version available here.

Road trip to New Mexico

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Last weekend Cristin and I went on a road trip to New Mexico and visited some of its sites. We wanted to see Santa Fe, but besides that nothing was planned. I took Friday off at work and we drove from Austin to Santa Rosa where we spent the night. Santa Rosa is [...]

Medellin 2008: The pictures

Pictures from my trip to Medellín.

Medellín 2008: The food

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Every time I come to Medellín it is mandatory for me to eat as many typical dishes as possible and this time it hasn´t been the exception. [...]

Medellín 2008: Corralejas

Picture by Luis Pérez
A corraleja is a typical celebration from the Colombian coast regions where people gather in a place similar to a bullfight ring and fight several bulls. The difference with a bullfight is that there is no matador in corralejas, but anyone can jump in and fight the bull. And the bull is [...]

Medellín 2008: The trip

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It all started on July 30th at 3:30am when I get this phone call:
Me: “He…mfff…llo…bmgrrr?”
Cab driver: “Hello are you Mr. Jaramillo? I´m the cab driver and I´m waiting for you outside your house”
Me: “Dude! I asked for a cab for July 31st! You came 24 hours too soon!”
Cab driver: “Oh… errr.. crap!… sorry [...]

Trip to New Orleans

Are you a really good brother or are you that stupid?
I must say that you have to be both, to drive from Austin to New Orleans by yourself to only stay four days (2 of which I spent driving). My sister went to New Orleans because The Acoustical Society of America was meeting at the [...]

Monterrey 2007

I spent most of last week in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. The purpose of the trip was mainly to see the concert Me verás volver of Soda Stereo, one of my favorite bands ever. The concert was AMAZING! Check Marcos‘ blog for the chronicle and take a look at the official concert photos here and [...]

Puerto Escondido

I can only describe this amazing trip to Puerto Escondido to Eva and Niv’s wedding in spanish.

Cómo describir lo vivido en Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México en el Agosto de 2007, cuando los adjetivos se quedan cortos?
Una mezcla explosiva de Evas y Nives, de Mafaldas y Susanitas, Tequilas, Mazeltovs, y olas gigantes. De [...]

August update

Blogs turn very lame when you dont post regularly. Recently I haven’t had anything exciting to write about, so my blog has been falling into the lame category. This post is just to summarize some of the things I have been doing recently or that I’m going to be doing in the near future.
Party, party, [...]