Traveling to new heights... with a humble little phrase

I found the cure! I always get so nervous before a job interview and there have been a couple of times were I have fumbled my way through an interview too nervously blabbing about this and that and I was turned down for the offer. If you are one of these types of people, you are going to want to read on ... trust me!

To conquer this weakness of mine, I stumbled upon a grand realization. The interviewer is human just like me, Managerial/CEO title or not, still HUMAN. So to remind myself of this, I came up with an ingenious phrase ... "They poo just like I do". Think about it...

if they poo just like you do, how does that make them any different or superior to you? They still have to perform this act which is a humbling and a lowly state.

Anytime I started to feel somewhat nervous I would say this in my head, and then try to hold back my crackling smile. Needless to say, my little trick worked and I aced two back-to-back interviews this morning and I got the job! Here I come ... watch out.

tHe bIG ApPLe

went to visit Jam this fall in NYC. Was so fun.

I miss my sissy... love you jam!

She already blogged most the cool pics.

i'm too slow. But here are a few more...

i love tea time... but....

this is actually at a hole-in-the-wall Cuban restaurant

were the food was muy muy deliciouso.

a walk through central park...

ha... this is the day that Hasen and I were trying to

make it to the botanical gardens.

We took the wrong train and somehow we ended up in Coney Island.

It was one of the best days though...it was deserted and we just took fun pictures.

we eventually found the botanical gardens

the only place to find some peace & tranquility

many sub-rides later...

dos Cubana chicas

my grams saw this pic. and asked me if i had a brother she just never knew about..?

jam and NyC...

i know we had to part but i miss your lovely faces already!

oh & lastly... a video of the rADesT NyC bEAt BoXEr EvER.... you better watch, took 4ever to upload.

Rollin' on a River

Our trip to Cataract Canyon in Sept. 2010... was AmaZing!!

Fun peeps, good eats, beautiful sights to see.

Here are a few of my favs...............

yes please!! even a little musical serenade by our very own Matt & Mo.

and then the raddest pics of all.... Jeremy Jackson.

Hasen loved this pic so much he made a

huge poster that now decorates his living room. ha...man love.

getting our dance on the party barge

parties over.... major rapids ahead.

and then.... we lost one....

No worries, he was rescued...

and lived to tell the tale of Cataract Canyon 2010!!

With my game face On

In La Paz, Bolivia we had the chance to go watch a true South American futbol match. It was Bolivar playing The Greatest. We decided to sit in the fan section to get the full experience (and to cheer for Bolivar of course). Man did we get what we asked for...the fans were insane! It was fun to try and learn all the cheers in Spanish... ha ha, half the time i think we may have been saying many derogative phrases. But it was such a fun game and a lot crazier than any other game i had experienced before. Oh, and our team won of course :)

Death Road, La Paz, Bolivia.

Since we thought we hadn´t had enough adventure yet... we decided to give ourselves a rush by biking down the world´s deadliest road... hence its´name, Death Road. Suposidily 300 people die on it a year (mostly traffic accidents). It actually wasn´t so scary now that they built a new road and this one wasn´t the main one anymore. We also really lucked out because we didn´t have to deal with many cars that day... it was a slow day for traffic. However, it was a little intense knowing that if you were to slip out on your bike you would go rolling off the edge and fall about 500 feet to your death. So the fact that it was a pretty narrow dirt path with many winding curves made it a little heart-racing... not to mention the stories we heard of bikers that have fallen off to their deaths. Needless to say, we made it! We made the decent of over 3,400 meters in about three hours and we survived El Camino de la Muerte! :)

Pics of all this to come...

More Salt Please

The salt flats of Uyuni, Bolivia are amazing... Salt Lake's salt flats don't even compare. It was neat to be out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothing but miles and miles of White and Blue and huge Cati. Was very beautiful...

I was glad that we got to experience the adventure with a bunch of friends we had meet while traveling... Here are some photos of us trying to be creative on the salt flats... ha ha was a little difficult to organize a group of 15 though!

Me Encanta Bolivia xoxo

Bolivia, I love you! The Traditional Bolivian Women dress so rad...They are quite the stylish people with their cute little outfits. However, they don't take well to getting their picture snapped so i sneaked some peeks from the bus...Here are a few of my favs...

and just to warn all you future travelers that are headed to South America... Bolivia is underated! A lot of travelers seem to skip this country when passing through SA, which is a shame because it is one of my favorite places in SA. The food is muy rica (Very delicious) and the country is super barato (cheap...like $1.00 for the best meals). The country is full of little old ladies selling hand-woven goods for practically nothing... including: scarfs, rugs, and sweaters. It is such a beautiful place and neat cultural experience you don't want to miss!

A Cactus City

NW of Iguazu we stopped in Salta, Argentina. The city was full of the coolest cacti I had ever seen. We ran into the same friends we had hiked with in Patagonia and went on a horse-back riding trek with them. It’s nice because you just keep running into the same travelers in the next city and it feels like you have friends all over the country! Our horse trek was really fun, it was on this little ranch about ½ hour outside of the city and up into the mountains. My horse was a little crazy… he kept trying to bite my leg! I had to show him who was boss and he finally stopped. Then we got to run the horses (sorry Als I know you would have loved it...I thought about you!). It was a bit scary… I thought I was going to fall off. Ha ha, I didn’t think I liked horse-back riding that much until now. It was a blast! At the ranch I learned how to lasso the skull. I was pretty excited about it cause it was really hard at first. But yeah, i love learning random skills!