http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Heller/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Heller en-us Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:48:35 +0000 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:48:35 +0000 I crossed the Williamsburg bridge towards the city with a tall can of Budweiser. It's really one of the most beautiful views I've ever seen. Manhattan's majesty is comparable to the vistas at any National Park.I got to the Lower East Side with the hunger that comes from a few glasses of wine and a 25minute walk. I found some cheap Puerto Rican cuchifritos. Tasty. I met up with Ben inside of the http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/blog-333390.html Through the miracle of cheap airfare internet work and physician recruitment conferences I will be going to Puerto Rico at the end of this month.My mom invited me to stay with her in San Juan. The hotel has all sorts of amenities including but not limited to wireless internet on the beach.If you have to work you might as well work beachside with a cocoloco in your hand.A few months ago I ga http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/blog-216274.html On Saturday afternoon I walked around San Francisco. We walked from Hayes Valley to the Mission. The sketchy parts of the city happen abruptly. It's like Boom now I feel uncomfortable. I saw all of the things that would cause somebody to say this is sketchy though each of them individually might elicit a similar response. Crazy homeless people prostitutes public urination and several broad http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-207129.html This weekend I went to a Antidoto Music festival at the Greek Theater in LA. It was all Latino bands and all Latino people. It was like a music festival in Latin America but for some reason this time I didn't try to sneak backstage. Though for a second I was in the press area. My friend Shannon won tickets to the show. They seated every ticket winner in a row in the exact center of the venue.W http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/blog-202948.html Earlier this summer I decided with my lady friend that we would spend the week following camp on vacation.During the Staff Party she wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be too hungover the next day to go on our excursion.On Monday I was too hungover to travel.But I'm a seasoned traveler so moving whilst in pain comes as second nature to me.On Monday evening we headed to the Eastern Sierra http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Bishop/blog-193211.html I moved away from Mexico. I don't have a job so I'm kind of hanging out for a few weeks. I decided to take a jaunt to my old ciudad universitaria. I regularly update this blog.I got into Davis on Thursday night. I chose the Carl's Jr. Jalapeno Burger over In N Out. What I wasn't hungry at the Kettleman City offramp.When I got to Jason's house there were fraternity pledges preparing an exchan http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Davis/blog-158228.html Uh I have another blog that I update when I'm not traveling.Heller's CornerIt's way funny. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-149958.html Has anybody ever composed a list of the dumbest themed bars in the world That would surely put Pachuca Hidalgo on the map. Last night we went to Zirco a circus themed bar. I wonder who thought that would be a good idea. But the circus bar that we went to was not the one I knew about there is another fucking circus bar in Pachuca. In a city that has 300000 people there are two circus themed ba http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-123983.html So I've realized that I update this blog infrequently primarily when I go on vacations.But I still live in Mexico and crazy day to day shit happens to me so it would be in your best interest to check out my regularly updated blogwww.hellerscorner.com http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-106779.html I woke up on Wednesday morning cold as fuck. I recently purchased a heater to heat my large uninsulated room. The heater successfully warms my toes when I place them right over the radiator.My immediate thought was I need to get out of town fast.The last time I made such a drastic claim was when I was being bombarded with coconuts on the mean streets of Lagos Portugal true story semitrue s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Guerrero/Zihuatanejo/blog-105711.html My Mexican SuperGroup Los Extrangueros performed on Thursday... we are playing again on Friday if you want to show up.Torta mi AmorGuayabera Laptop http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-102693.html A running theme for my time in Mexico has been You can do whatever you want you're in Mexico.This weekend I went to Corona Music Fest. We met up with our friend from Britilandia. I drank four beers on the taxi ride to the Estadio Azteca. I bought Bud Light for nostalgic purposes and a Belgian 9 for enhanced drunkeness purposes.I had some delicious al Pastor before going into the show. I peed http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/blog-102692.html Mexico celebrates Halloween the way Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. They get a day and a half off. This year Dia De Muertos was on a Thursday so we didn't have school on Thursday or Friday. I decided to stay in Pachuca on Wednesday night. I went out with my neighbors. My friends told me about a party that they were going to after work. I met them around midnight... and one of their dad's drove http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Michoac-n/Morelia/blog-101118.html On friday morning before I went to school. I tried to cut my hair into one of those subtleeuro mullet things... but it now just looks like I'm balding. It is pretty sweet though.After school Zach and I went with our neighbor and her boyfriend to Guanajuato. It is several hours to the rest depending on how many times your car breaks down twice on the way there three times on the way back. We http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Guanajuato/blog-97384.html My mom was at a resort in northern Mexico and she met a really funny couple from Mexico City. They became good friends and my parents went out to dinner with them in Los Angeles. On Friday my mom told me that they wanted me to visit them at their ranch west of Mexico City. I got in touch with them and on Saturday morning I made the journey to their estate.I woke up Saturday morning dying of th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Michoac-n/blog-94062.html On Friday we left Pachuca for the Big City actually the Biggest City in the world Mexico City DF. We took a cab all the way to the Pachuca bus station before realizing we forgot the keys to my aunt's sweet pad. The taxi driver drove us back home... and then it started it hailing it was some strange weather that I have never encountered. The taxi driver was the first of many who lived in a s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Distrito-Federal/Mexico-City/blog-91064.html So I finally got sick for the first time since I've been down here. I think it was an egg torta... the worst part was that I went to a buffet but couldn't eat... That is like the grandest shame in the history of shames that I can imagine. But luckily it was a wellpriced vegetarian buffet... so I didn't miss out on too much.I was sick so I didn't have to come to school. I graded papers and update http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-89951.html So I went to see Snakes on a Plane in Pachuca last night.The titular line is ruined by translation.Estoy cansado sobre esos malditos serpientes abordo este maldito avion.Which translates toI am sick of these darn snakes aboard this darn plane. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-88384.html I haven't had a weekend in like five years. I of course mean that in the most positive of sense. Nearly everyday for the past five years has been what regular people would consider a weekend. Sure I had class obligations etcetera... but for the most part I could get drunk every night. But for the first time since high school I felt like my monday through friday warranted an actual weekend. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-86440.html Mexico is great I haven't even gotten sick. This weekend I went to DF... to visit my family. I have a new baby cousin and a five year old cousin... It was her birthday.I had a really fun time with her. She is cute and funny... We watched Dora the Explorer... but then when it ended we had to leave... she wanted us to watch more and was angry that we were leaving... she wouldnt say anything to us http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Hidalgo/Pachuca/blog-85387.html