I’m the type of person who likes to have a future trip planned. A bit restless 🙂 So this week I booked my flight to Jamaica for the end of this month. Going to a special retreat there, and I think it will be amazing. Then my sister and I did a video call and booked our hike for this summer. It will be a 6 day, 5 nights hike on Kungsleden/Kings Trail up in the northern part of Sweden. Takes a bit of planning with trains, busses, flights and making sure you book each overnight hut for the right date. Really looking forward to it, and it’s our 3rd summer we’re doing this 🙂
Apart from booking these trips, it was a pretty mellow week. For some reason going to the gym this week was very hard. Felt lethargic and the work-outs felt hard. But as always, was so good after finishing! See how happy I look hahahaaa…
Then the weekly content producing. I always share the edited pics, but here’s a pic of us checking the light on the spot where we want to shoot. Almost too hot to handle LOL…
And the light was good so it ended up looking like this…
And some more shots… I love my sugar daddy t-shirt I found in a thrift store 🙂
Also a couple of pics from the shoot I did in Puerto Escondido. Made me miss the beach…
I’m not the only model in this family. Just look at Hunter’s pose!
Sorry Hunter. Here’s a couple of more of him. Also my friend came over to help me with some computer stuff, but Hunter thought it was enough work for one night and just planted himself on his computer 🙂
Sunday-funday, you up to something? I think I’m going to paint on a Psychonaut Explorer jacket I’m working on and then go to a cafe and read. Right now I’m reading the 2nd book of Joe Abercombie’s ‘The Age of Madness’ series. I read the previous trilogy before this one too and liked it a lot. It’s nice when reading a series you know the characters and can keep plowing through.
Sooo, whatever you’re up to, I wish you a happy Sunday and a great upcoming week!
Sooo, we are almost done with this year. How was your 2022? Any plans or goals for 2023? What was the best thing that happened or that you did this year?
For me a couple of the most memorable things this year were my 2 hikes with my sister in Sweden. Not much beats being outdoors.
Adopting Hunter S Thompson. These pics are from this morning. He just loves getting as close as he can to my face 🙂
The Changa ceremony. I never experienced anything like it and it truly was mind altering.
I always love my trips to LA and seeing my wifey Sandy & her family. I feel like I’m part of their family 🙂 And I loved seeing more of Italy this summer… (and drinking their wine).
Also there was a lot of insightful and mind-bending trips on various ‘medicines’. Finally got to experience Peyote too 🙂
Lastly I’m very proud of launching Psychonaut Explorer.
In 2023 I hope to travel more. To see more of Mexico, and on my bucket list is to hike in Patagonia or Ireland. Maybe a part of Kungsleden in Sweden. It would be amazing to hike on Iceland too 🙂 I know I will do more mind expanding trips too and I have thoughts of obtaining the knowledge from Kambo and Iboga. I’m going to sign up for Spanish lessons again and improve my Spanglish. Continue my work and experimenting with Psychonaut Explorer. I have amazing fans so there will be more pics and videos being made as well. Mostly I hope to stay healthy because then anything can happen 🙂
I forgot to shoot NYE pics for this year so I’m reusing last years content. Being wasteful is so old anyways 😉
That’s it from me this year. I wish you an amazing New Years Eve whatever you get up to and that you’ll have an amazeballs start on 2023!!!
Are you guys prepping for the holidays? What and where are you going to spend it? Doing anything special or no f*cks given? I got a bit homesick thinking of all the special Swedish foods we have for the holidays, the cold, snow and darkness. So what did I find? A Scandinavian holiday ‘something’ celebration in one of the WhatsApp groups. Turns out it was at a church with Christmas songs in Swedish, Finnish, and Danish. And the coolest part, the girls singing them were Mexicans and sang them perfectly. Very impressed! The other best part was that they sold ‘lussebullar’, cinnamon buns and Finnish ‘mustikkapiirakka’ which is blueberry pie. Obviously I bought a bunch and suddenly I wasn’t so homesick after all 🙂
Buuuut then yesterday morning I started craving again and googled where the IKEA store is here in Mexico City. Ordered an Uber and off I went. Bought so much Swedish candy that I had stomach pain the rest of the day. But it was well worth it hahhahaaa…
Pasts weeks work for the ‘spicy’ site 🙂
Also worked on Psychonaut Explorer shooting and created a Sale section on the website.
Found my way to the gym too and feel healthy and strong now 🙂 Also tried a new gym called Commando with my friend Dyana. It was awesome and felt like a morning disco with a workout!
Are you guys following the World Cup? There are a lot of Argentinians here in the City and they all seem to gather at this restaurant around the corner here and cheer the Argentinian team on.
And Hunter is doing great. I feel like I have a kid now. We love to chill on the balcony and take naps together. At night he expects his usual treat which is turkey slices with some Philadelphia cheese that I serve him on a napkin hahahaaa 🙂
A couple of selfies and this cute pig I ran into one night when out walking 🙂
Now going to eat some cured salmon and hit the gym. Going to do some Xmas gift shopping this week, work a lot, and then I have a small Swedish Xmas celebration with friends. I feel excited for this week and hope you will have an amazing week too 🙂
I popped by Sweden again for 10 days. Intense to say the least. I arrived a few days after my birthday so my sister welcomed me with this 🙂 Arrived late so we popped a bottle and went to bed.
Then it was time to celebrate my friend Katrin’s birthday. She doesn’t do mellow or believe in ‘less-is-more’, so the party was wild!
Barely had time to recover before it was time to head up north hiking with my sister again. Took the night train up so we could sleep and arrive fresh. I love the bunk beds!
Arrived in the morning and downed some breakfast, coffee, and off we went. Beautiful fall colors and the weather was a mix of cloudy, sunny, hot and cold. Clothes came off and clothes were put back on… Distance hiked 16km.
We stayed at Sylarna Fjällstation the first night. We have stayed there before and had pre-booked their dinner buffet. Pretty great views out of the cabin when eating and relaxing. Oh, and they have a sauna too so we hit that before passing out.
Next morning we had their breakfast buffet and the waffles were soooo good!
Then off hiking to Norway. We were told that we should’ve collected a key to the cabin in Norway since there would be no staff there at this time of the year. The cabins on the Swedish side should have them too, but this one was out. We emailed the support where we made our reservation and hoped there would be other people booked at the location that could let us in. One key works at all the cabins in all of Norway. Fingers crossed and off we went… Ice on the water in the morning, but the sun was warm…
Wohooo, finally reached the border to Norway. There was only this fence and a gate that you opened and tied closed. Hello Norway!
There was this tiny hut and we decided to take a coffee & snack break. After all, we reached Norway. Pretty cool…
While taking a break, we also had phone reception so we decided it was best to call about our reservation. Didn’t tempt us too much to hike another 10km and then be locked outside with no proper gear. The lady said there were no other reservations made, so there was a pretty big chance we’d not be able to get in. We decided it was best to turn around and alter our planned route. And back to Sweden we hiked…
A bit of a #fail, but who cares when you got beautiful landscapes, sun, champagne and coffee. My whole family has always been able to nap whenever and wherever. My sister proving it by falling asleep on a pile of rocks hahahaaa…. Distance hiked 16km.
We spent another night at Sylarna Fjällstation. Next morning there was a bunch of reindeers right outside the window while we were eating breakfast. Spotting a white reindeer is supposed to mean luck 🙂
We then took off towards Blåhammaren Fjällstation.
It’s a 19km hike and the last part is all uphill. It feels pretty good when you finally reach the cabin. And to know you have a 3-course dinner booked 🙂 But first some beer and a sauna.
The dinner was super good and the main course was reindeer. I was so hungry I didn’t even have time to take a pic of the food hahahaa…
Pretty much put my head on the pillow and slept like 5 seconds later. The last day we hiked back to Storulvåns Fjällstation (12km) where you take the bus to the train station. We had booked the night train again. Arrived back in Stockholm at 5am the next morning.
Didn’t have time for much more than eating some meatballs and hanging out with friends and family before it was time to head back to Mexico. Until next time Sweden!
Been working my ass off since I got back to Mexico. Got a couple of friends over from the US now too and we’re shooting a lot of stuff for an upcoming NFT project. All that for the next post. Considering hitting the gym now after a couple of night of debauchery 🙂 Then more shooting and dinner later. What are you up to this weekend? Oh, if you need a great series to watch, check out Taboo with Tom Hardy. Pretty dark & gory…
Last weekend I walked to Polanco and strolled around. This month they’re celebrating Independence Day in Mexico. What I love about Mexico and Mexicans is that they take celebrations seriously. There are flags and decorations everywhere here now. They had a huge parade with cars that people had tuned up or modified. Most of the cars were carrying flags or sombreros. They were revving their engines and people were lining the streets to watch. I was too impressed and forgot to snap more pics 🙁
Even after having lived here for a year I still discover new places. Walked by this bird sanctuary and went inside. One of my biggest dreams would be to be able to talk to animals. I have tried, believe me. Especially when tripping in nature thinking I have more brain capacity and that I should be able to attract animals. So far no luck. I tried with the parrot on the bench, but he didn’t give a shit about me hahahaaa…
I was also prepping for my birthday coming up next week…
Finally got a table at Masala & Maiz. It’s a Mexican/Indian fusion restaurant and super popular. Someone told me that they been asked to be featured in a book about the 50 best restaurants in Mexico and they declined. They just didn’t want the attention and they’re already fully booked. AND the food was supergood. Also drank some organic wine that’s been processed naturally and tasted more like cider without the carbonation.
Sabrina came over and we had some fun 🙂 Took her and her husband to my favorite taco stand around the corner for some fancy dining 🙂 There was a constant stream of people coming and asking for a photo with her.
Went to a birthday party…
Got new flashy claws…
Not sure what I’ll do for my birthday yet, but I have some ideas. The next day I’m flying to Sweden to celebrate some more. My nephew has his birthday the same day as me and a friend is having a huge birthday party as well.
That is all 🙂 Gonna head out for some coffee now and read. Almost done with the 3rd book of ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’… If you have good reading recommendations, please write a comment. Always looking for good new reads!
I’ll leave you with this video which I think is pretty funny…
As soon as I had jet lag somewhat in control, me and my sister packed our backpacks and took a train up to the northern parts of Sweden – Vålådalen, for some hiking. We arrived in the afternoon, so we spent the night and had a sauna, hot tubbing and dinner.
We grabbed some breakfast to go the next morning and headed out on the trail. Beautiful morning and we decided we wanted to enjoy breakfast out in the nature instead of indoors. Felt pretty good to get the 11 kg backpack off my back for a bit too 🙂
The first day was supposed to be a 13 km hike. We decided to take a little detour which added 5 km. This was to check out the ‘pyramids’ that are like sandhills and supposedly dates back from the ice age. Not sure I was that impressed. But it was also a perfect nap, coffee break and eat a snack spot there.
Reloaded on energy we hiked the last kilometers and finally spotted the cabin where we spent our first night. No running water, electricity or wifi. BUT, they had a sauna and after you ‘showered’ by hanging up a bucket of water and turning a tap on it. Perfect!
The second day of hiking was about 16 km. Beautiful day out and only caught some rain the last 20 min of hiking. The cabins have a rooms to dry stuff in, but we fired up our fireplace in our room and dried up.
Third day was mostly hiking on plains between mountains with great views.
My sis and I obviously hike in style, so when we found a nice spot, we popped a mini bottle of Champagne 🙂
We been told that, in the end of our 3rd day hike, we would have to wade over a strong river to get to the other side. If the river had high water levels, it could be dangerous. They showed us at the cabin how to cross it safely. Holding on and facing each other and only moving one foot at the time. We got a bit nervous, but luckily when we showed up, the water was low. There was a strong current, but we crossed safely. Obviously we popped a bottle after that 🙂
The last cabin was the nicest one. It was also the newest one cause the old one had burned down. They also had a sauna right by a river. Perfect ending to sweat in the sauna and swim in the cold water. The waters up there are so fresh that you can drink them. Perfect so you don’t have to carry too much drinking water.
Slept like babies and up at 5.30 am. We both like waking up early and you can see it wasn’t too crowded at the breakfast tables hahahaaa… The only other ones that were up were the reindeers that walked right outside the window.
Last day of hiking was about 14 km. It was so amazing to be outdoors like this and we had such a great time. But as soon as we hit the bus and the train, we passed out hahhaaaa…
A couple of more pics from somewhere up there among the mountains…
I can really recommend hiking in Sweden if you like the outdoors. If you want to find trails, info and cabins, check out https://www.svenskaturistforeningen.se/. They make it really easy to find options and to book. We’re planning on maybe do an other hike in September.
Time flies in Sweden and I’m squeezing as much as possible when I’m here. I will show some pics of what I’ve been up to in the next post. Now getting ready to head out to lunch with a friend. On Tuesday next week I fly to Italy. Very excited about that too 🙂
All the best to you where ever in the world you are!
Worked my little butt off the week before going to LA. The feeling that you want to finish stuff off before taking off and not leaving unfinished business hanging. I’m lucky to have met Valentina who is an awesome chick and also a professional model. Didn’t take me too long to ask her to come over and throw some Psychonaut Explorer stuff on her 🙂
I also have Tanya who I dressed up. For safety reason she got to wear a helmet lol…
After that it all got a bit too ‘creative’…
Then dressed myself up on some latex, skimpy stuff and tried to pull off the librarian look. Found one of my all time favorite books too – American Psycho! It was one of the first books I read when I was younger. I realized that there actually are some amazing books out there, other than the crap they made you read at school!
Long time since I had long acrylic nails. Knowing I was going to shoot a lot in LA, I put some glittery claws on. I love long acrylic nails. Could never grow my own weak nails to something like these. Only bad thing about them, is the maintenance and getting them filled and re-painted like every other week.
Then I took off to LA. Always so excited to see one of my best friends, Sandy & her family. I call them my extra family in LA 🙂 This trip was intense. First priority was to get my passport renewed. Found an office that issues passports in 3-5 days that you have to pay some more for. Couldn’t get an appointment at the regular passport office. I love my old passport since it has memories of so many amazing travels. It had only 4 pages left without stamps plus it was expiring now in August.
Then I had contacted a Swedish girl, Monica or @Swedish_Bella on IG, that I really wanted to shoot with. Only stalked her on Instagram and finally we got to meet and play. Superchill and fun chica and we had a great day. I got more pics coming, but here are some BTS (behind the scenes) pics…
We actually had so much fun that we decided to meet up the next day and have some more fun. She also brought her friend Holly Treats that actually was like a real life sized treat 🙂 Pretty sure (fingers crossed) that I will see Monica & Holly again 🙂
Then I’m also working on a really creative and crazy NFT project with some long time friends from LA. We shot some stuff for 2 days around town and I can’t wait to show you. I have seen some of the NFT stuff and it’s trippy just the way I like it. There will be more stuff coming, but the IG page is @yardsaleonacid if you don’t want to miss out!
I also had the pleasure to shoot with Shay Sights for the first time. She been in the same industry as me for a long time, but our paths never crossed. Wow, what an amazing person and we had such a fun time. I already warned Shay she hasn’t seen me for the last time 🙂 Oh, and not to forget, her cats and dog that I was ready to take with me!
I love Sandy’s kids and between work there was the regular play time with Barbies, making dance videos, throwing parties, swimming in the pool and the list goes on… Sometimes I got the honor to babysit which you can see I handled like a pro!
Did a last photo shoot to really make sure I squeezed in as much as possible…
Time flew by way too fast. Felt like I needed one more week. But hopefully I’ll be back in LA in October. And yes, my new passport arrived in time and it was time to take off to Sweden!
I’m heading up to the northern parts of Sweden tomorrow for a 4 day hike with my sister. Hiking and being outdoors is definitely one of my top 5 things to do! Might even be number 1. What’s on the top of your list? Remember to take the time and prioritize doing them 🙂
Death, pretty much the only certain thing we get in life. And still so many people are uncomfortable talking about it. I’ve pretty much come to terms with death a few years ago. This happened during a psychedelic experience. During the ‘trip’ I just came to accept that I’m going to die and I don’t have any fear of it. Of course I don’t want to die yet 🙂 And I’m sure if a plane is crashing when I’m in it, I’d be poo-ing my pants!
I have clearly told a couple of people closest to me what I would wish for in certain situations. Like what if I go into a coma? I have been very clear that I don’t want to be kept alive if a machine handles my breathing and all I’m doing is being bedridden. If I’m in a coma for 6 months, it’s OK to say bye to me. And I want to be cremated and I don’t really care what happens with the ashes. Do what’s convenient…
Probably like 20 years ago one of my friend’s mom died of cancer. She said they had never talked about funeral arrangements. It’s not something you want to bring up when you know someone is facing death. She said she wishes they’d talked about it so she and the rest of the family would’ve known if there was something special her mom wished for. Burial in a coffin, cremation, prayers, songs etc… I remember she told me after to talk to my family about these things now. Not to wait. So we all did. My mom passed almost 2 years ago and it felt good to know exactly what she wanted for her after death.
I’m also reading a very interesting book now that was recommended to me – ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande’. This is what Wikipedia says about it –
“a 2014 non-fiction book by American surgeon Atul Gawande. The book addresses end-of-life care, hospice care, and also contains Gawande’s reflections and personal stories. He suggests that medical care should focus on well-being rather than survival.”
I haven’t finished the book yet, but I really like it, and even though I haven’t finished it, I’m pretty sure I’ll recommend it when finished.
Another great book I can recommend when talking about death is – ‘Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson by Mitch Albom’. It’s a very famous book and you can easily Google it. But one thing that I read in the book that really affected me was when the main character, Morrie, has a living funeral. As in having a funeral when you are still alive. It made so much sense to me. Like what’s the point of people (hopefully) praising you when you already are dead? And bringing big flower arrangements that you won’t even see? So in the book it’s basically a funeral were people tell Morrie all the stuff they would be telling at his funeral when he’s already dead. Ever since reading it I’ve been thinking about having a ‘living funeral’, but haven’t got to it yet.
My friend in Sweden just wrote me on WhatsApp and asked me what I was up to. Told her I was writing about death. She then recommended me to watch this clip on YouTube about a young Swedish woman named Elin fighting cancer. The clip starts by Elin saying she should be dead by now… It’s 13min long clip from her TED talk and really makes you think about how you are living your life. I highly recommend watching it and it’s in English.
OK, enough talk about death 🙂 I hope you are healthy and kicking ass out there!
How has your week been? Here in Mexico it’s summer and I’ve almost beat my jetlag!
I thought I’ll share some pics and a video of my surgery I had in Sweden. Hope I don’t gross anyone out hahahaaa…
I felt my face was sagging on the bottom half and it was starting to look a bit like a raisin. I especially didn’t like the deep creases from my mouth down that I felt made me look like I was always miserable. I was recommended to see Dr. Maximilian Otte. Supposedly a perfectionist out to his fingertips. I felt confident after my consultation with him and we decided on a lower facelift and some injections of my own fat in the hollow areas. Surgery was then booked for April 25th.
These are the pics I took before and I circled what I was not happy with. And the last picture showing expected results 😉
I was to be at Akademikliniken at 7am on the 25th. Very excited and not nervous. I kind of like anesthesia for some weird reason. Like a supergood nap. Met with the anesthesia doctor or whatever he’s called, and he asked some questions and explained what he was going to do. Then with Dr Maximillian who pulled my face, tapped on the hollow areas, and drew marks on where he was going to pull, suck the fat out of me (inside my legs and belly) and where to inject it.
I was second in line to be operated on. Finally it was my turn, and the last thing that I remember is the anesthesia doctor asking if I felt anything. I responded “It feels like I’m at a club and had 2 tequila shots, amazing…” and then I was out.
3.5h later thanks to all of the painkillers I felt amazing and a bit groggy when waking up. My whole head was wrapped up. Had an ice pack around my lower face, my legs had some kind of massage things to prevent blood clots, and I had a catheter so I didn’t even have to get up to pee 🙂 Also some tubes behind my ears that let out any excess blood. Oh and my favorite part is when they feed you when you wake up! Tastes sooo good!
Felt pretty good to get it all removed the next day. Except for when they pulled the tubes out that was under the skin. See in the video 🙂
Took a shower and was released to go home. I thought I’d be more bruised and swollen, but I think I looked pretty presentable right after 🙂 This pic is when I got home the day after.
3 days after…
Hardest part was sleeping on my back, face-up. I like to sleep on my side and on my face. A week after I went back for a check-up and removing the stitches in front of my ears. The stitches behind my ears are stitches that dissolve by themselves.
I also had to take shots for 10 days to prevent blood clots. I really do hate needles. Thankfully my sister didn’t mind stabbing my legs 🙂 Here are pics I took this Friday. I’m so happy with the results. It’s still healing, but I can see a huge difference. Bye bye raisin-face!
And here’s a video if you still want more… Oh, and for some reason I had to show my titty in the middle of the video so be aware if you watch this in the office (NSFW) hahahaaa… Or are offended by tits 😉
Pretty much it. I feel great, but have to take it easy for one more week before exercising. Now I’m going to take a nap because jetlag just refuses to give up!
Damn, time went by way too fast in Sweden. I got back to Mexico last night. It felt like I came to Sweden, celebrated Easter by visiting different friends and eating lots of candy, jetlagged, more friends & family time, had surgery, recovered pretty much, and then jumped on a plane back home again.
I was lucky that Sweden for once had pretty decent spring weather. The week before it could be sunny at noon and snowing a couple of hours later. Between all of the Easter meals my sister and I needed a walk. Something that runs in my family is that we can all sleep pretty much anywhere, at any time. This dock with a bench was a perfect nap spot 🙂
Right after Easter I had my consultation for a lower facelift. I probably could’ve waited a couple of more years for more saggy skin to pull up, but I’m not much for waiting when I want to do something. I was recommended a German surgeon whom my friend said he’s all about German precision. I was happy with the consultation and a surgery date was booked. All went great and I’m very happy. I will write a different post about this and show pics. Still have some bruising and swelling so waiting for final results 🙂
Something that’s great about Stockholm is there’s a lot of nature close to the city. I love being out in the woods. With my sister and 2 friends we hiked from Huddinge and checked out Tornberget. It’s a 10 meter high construction in the middle of the woods. It’s the highest spot in Stockholm – 111 meters above sea level, with great views from the top.
I always feel so happy when I’m in the woods and I try to make it a priority to spend more time outdoors hiking or camping. If I had to pick between a week hiking trip or say a beach vacation, I’d pick hiking and being outdoors any day.
After hiking we went to Karina’s summer house where they have a sauna right by a lake. Wow, perfect ending to the day and we actually got in the water too. I was going to write that we swam, but it was more like holding on to the stairs and dipping yourself and then hurrying back into the sauna. Obviously not before someone takes my pic!
Talking about sauna, me being a Finn and obviously loving saunas. But we’re also supposed to be very thirsty people, so my friend brought me 10 liters of vodka. Where and how she got it, probably is better untold hahhaaaa…
Spent a lot of time with my nephew, his girlfriend, and their “baby”. He’s 1 year and 3 months… is that a baby or a kid? First time for me meeting the little one and damn he is adorable. I’m not much for kids unless they are my friends and are cool to play with. One day we visited this incredible waffle place that feels like it’s in the middle of nowhere. It’s called Klockargårdens Våffleri. It’s about a 50 minute drive from Stockholm City in the countryside. It’s most definitely worth the drive if you visit Stockholm. So peaceful and tasty waffles!
It was great to be back in Sweden and seeing friends and family. Maybe I’ll make another trip there this summer. Now I’m very happy being back in Mexico City. Got some recovery to do and look forward to getting back to work 🙂 I leave you with the best thing coming out of Sweden after Puma Swede that is hahahaaa…
