Had some early morning work to do so worked at home for a bit before setting out to find a cafe or some new scenery to work around. Ended up at Oma which had a nice setting and a patio across from the park but the food was overwhelming and the WiFi was spotty so I just headed over to Work&Go for the rest of the day. A big pack of us was going out to dinner that night and I stopped at one of Bogota Beer Company’s nine million locations on the way to Bandido Bistro. This place was great. Nice setting, live music, good cocktails. Closed that place down and then called it a night.
Category: Daily
Day 224 | January 5
Started the day heading over to Work & Go to keep working but en route I lost motivation for that plan. I’d been sitting in there for three days and needed a change of pace so I deviated south to the Parque 93 area to look for a cafe to work from. I came across Azahar Cafe which had a very nice outdoor set up, good WiFi and coffee. Also apparently a hot spot for Remotes as many of us swung through during the day. Later on I did head back to Work & Go to kill some time before dinner. In the evening I went to Bruto with some folks which was excellent. Great space, good food and live music from time to time I’m told.
Day 223 | January 4
This was another day of uneventful, head down, working. Woke up early, headed to the work space and powered through until evening. I finally finished the major thing I had been working on; three days all distilled down to a single graph. After that three day slog I was tired and hungry so I went to this really neat Italian place, La Fabbrica for dinner and was in bed by nine. Wild times.
Day 222 | January 3
Today was another very work oriented day. I just headed over to Work & Go to power through and I didn’t stop until our welcome event in the evening. There’s always something at these and this one featured some crazy local dancers. We had another birthday today so after that I swung by Vaqueritos 82 to have a birthday drink and then ducked into La Villa next door to say Hi to the folks hanging out there. Despite this I still managed to call it a pretty early night since there’s still a lot of work on the docket for tomorrow.
Day 221 | January 2
The beginning of the year always leaves me extremely motivated to get after things… I mean for a few days at least. So today I was up and down to Work & Go, where we are working in Bogota. It’s a nice spot but not as dramatically cool as some of our prior stops. Traveling and not working so much in the past election cycle left me resolved to find something to fill my dance card in the near term. As luck would have it as I was taken care of other things something that fit the bill literally fell in my lap. Trying to make sure this new project actually gets off the ground as left me extremely busy. So much so that I powered through all day until it was time to head over to Bogota Beer Company to celebrate the birth of The Duze.
Day 220 | January 1
Despite our crazy party last night I actually felt pretty good today, but extremely exhausted. I had work to do but I decided to wave it off in favor of just laying around and watching movies and the new Sherlock all day. No excitement here.
Day 219 | December 31
A long one today! A 2am start to get assembled and get over to the airport for our early flight. Luckily the flight to Colombia isn’t bad, only about four hours. Even better, when we arrived things were really slow so we breezed right through passport control and customs and were able to get off to our places very quickly. My place in Bogota is nice, very modern but a bit small. A bunch of us in the neighborhood went to Hamburguesas El Corral to grab a quick bite and then most folks headed back home to nap before our New Years Eve party. At night we did New Years at this crazy place, Andrés Carne de Res. It’s hard to describe really but it was a typically wild evening of drinks and dancing.
Day 218 | December 30
Far from giving me time to recharge, my time in Denver was so frantic that it left me exhausted. Good thing I have a “Good Bye Mexico City” party tonight and have to leave for the airport to fly to Bogota around 2am this morning. I packed in the morning and then stepped out to Streats to satisfy my craving for chilaqules. For our departing celebration we took a bus down to the canals where I early traveled with some folks to search for the creepy island of dead dolls. In navigating the traffic and small streets around there the bus that we were on tried to make a turn that was too narrow. Instead of giving up we got creative and literally picked up the parked car that was blocking us and moved it out of the way. We got a bunch of boats and lashed them together and partied in typical fashion out on the canals for the evening. I even managed to get two or three hours of sleep before we had to leave for our flight.
Day 217 | December 29
A real last minute catch up this morning on the way to the airport as I stopped into Lucile’s to meet some of my political friends. Cajun food is also impossible to find outside the U.S. so it was great to hit up Lucile’s before I left town. My buddy Jack has hung out in South America a lot too so it was good to catch up with him before I head down there. After breakfast it was off to the airport where I ran into another Remote (literally can’t go anywhere these days without running into people) who was also flying back to Mexico City. The rest of the day was planes and cars.
Day 216 | December 28
Last full day in Denver and I still have errands to take care of as well as cramming in last minute catch ups with friends. I went and worked at my old Starbucks in the morning before heading over to get a haircut. So nice not to have to try and explain across a language barrier what I want. Also good to catch up with the girl who cut my hair when I was at home. In the evening it was back to Teller’s to meeting one of my friends who had just gotten back into Denver for the holidays. After that I headed back down to meet one of my friends who I haven’t seen in… years. We had dinner at Hillstone and then went over to Second Home for a drink. Despite not having seen her in so long (and her being a liberal terror) catching up with her ended up being one of the high points of my trip home.