Dang 5 Years!!!

(since my last post)

I was going through some emails today for google adsense and somehow managed to amount $79 in revenue.  Meaning I need $21 to be eligible for a payout... Anyways.. Let me drop this here to see if this will get me publishing something more often.  

In the meantime here is a photo from every year of blogging I have missed.

2014 - Jackson Hole, WY

2015 - On Route to Colorado for a Snowboard trip with sis.

2016 - Took Mia on a trip to Central Park

2017 - Still cooking 4 days a week at home.

And still traveling the globe when I can.  I've been a few places since 2013 as well so there will be some travel posts coming soon.  Stay Tuned!

In the meantime check out my youtube channel - www.youtube.com/onel0wcubn

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Cuba Round II

Cuba. Que lindo es mi Cuba. And boy let me tell you it's a journey in itself just getting here. This is the ticketing booth @MIA International waiting to have our boarding passes printed and pay for our luggage. Going to Cuba for most is an opportunity to take anything and everything you can fit or can't fit in luggage, you name it and we take it. Bikes, coffee makers, basketballs, rollerskates, baby cribs. EVERYTHING! Landing in Cuba you exit the plane right off the runway.. Then like any country you stand in line at customs.. After getting through customs our chariot awaited :)A Russian Lada is the norm.. On my last visit we decided to take a break from La Habana and head out to VARADERO! About 140km east of La Habana it's a straight shot on the via Blanca highway. It took us about 2 hours and some change with some stops and keeping an eye out for the caballitos (police). One of the cool stops on the way was El Puente de Bacunayagua, standing 110 meters high it is one of Cubas top 7 wonders of civil engineering. And Yes.. there are tolls in Cuba too.. Varadero Beach Some Photos from the resort we stayed at.. The steak house which was closed during our visit for repairs. The place where they do their weddings.. Pool Bar!! Pool Bungalows Pool Area.. Sunset That about wrapped up the Varadero part of the trip... I'll be back later for some of La Habana

Pedro Cam Live!!

Trash Treasures Round II

Back again with another pretty cool find. This time I was just driving home from work and saw this big bunched up thing on the side of a dumpster. Being the inquisitive person I am I drove on up to see what it was. I should have snapped a photo of it as it was when I found it. After pulling it out I still didnt know what it was until I fully set it up. Here you have it...a Hammock!




And as an added bonus I found these too!



Some Old School Atomic Skis with poles. LOL. These will turn into a project bench/Chair that I am going to make out of old ski and snowboard equipment.


And a quick update. In my last find I showed you this chair here...



I sold that yesterday!

Trash Treasures

So I´ve been labeled the Trash King by close friends and family. I also have the luck of number 7 floating around with me. I´ve always been interested in others peoples unwanted items so naturally when I see some stuff on the curb I stop and take a look. If I like something I see, I take it.. why not "someones trash is another mans treasure" right? As of late I have been finding some really cool stuff. Stuff with VALUE. My latest find included items valued at over $1000 dollars and I´ll get to that in a minute. At this rate I will probably have to open a store soon. Or just have an always open garage sale like @CedEntertainer on the recent movie Larry Crowne.

I figured I would share my finds with you through this blog. This will be the first of many posts to come about what I find on my travels throughout the good ol county of Fairfax and surrounding areas.

Here goes the first official post of Trash Treasures and 2012!!

The new year started out with people cleaning out their old unwanted furniture, clothes, and other home accessories. This is what I have found this year so far. Everything is for sale! The nice Adirondack chair is from Plow & Hearth and has 2 cushions! All the cast iron and birds are from Pottery Barn and current inventory!

First Shred day of the year!!

Bro and I went to 7 Springs on Christmas eve and I finally got to scratch that itch I've been having all summer long.

Going to the mall today...

In the madness of Christmas shopping. I'll stream my shopping adventure.

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MEHICOOOOO - Chichèn. IT's REAL

Oh Mehico how I love thee. Everything about you. Your people (albeit some people like to give your country a bad rap) Your Music, Your Culture, YOUR FOOD and YOUR BEACHES. Of course there is also your rich Mayan history which was really brought to my attention in my recent trip to Cancun. This being my first trip to Cancun I wasn't aware of how many Mayan people lived in the area. Although I never made it to Cancun proper during my vacation I think I enjoyed seeing the REAL Mexico over going to the Americanized city that is Mexicos Las Vegas.

Well here we have it.. The great Chichèn Itzà ( Chicken Pizza if you can't pronounce that ) lies in the DEEP flats of the Yucatàn. It took us 4 hours via tour bus to get here and the ride was.. well long.. boring.. not much but long fields like the Savannas of Africa. We had a short pit stop to eat and play at one of the local Cenotes. It was probably one of the coolest things I have done to date. Some pictures of where we played...







That was one the stops of the RedBull Cliff diving last year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJRspiK8poE

So after playing a bit we finally arrived at Chichèn Itzà. Not knowing anything about this Sacred land other than it was filled with lots of Mayan history I was ready to take a tour and learn everything there is to about this wonderful place. As soon as you walk through the ticket booths you get swarmed with teeny bopper vendors trying to lure you into their parents tables.


And this lasts about 5 minutes of walking down this long path and all of a sudden BOOM



There she is. This huge Pyramid by the name of Kuculcan. As you can see unlike the pyramids of Egypt this and all the other pyramids of the Maya are flat on top. This is due to the Temple being on the top of each one. Whilst on the tour I learned that the Kukulcan temple was pretty much a calendar for the Maya. Each side of the pyramid consisted of 91 stairs. 91 stairs X 4 sides = 364 plus the temple at the top made it 365. Which equals the days of the Haab Calendar year.



I also went on to learn that there was A LOT of death happening in this place. Like ALOT.. like enough to have a whole temple for sacrifices. Along with el Cenote Sagrado this is were all the killing.. I mean sacrifices took place.





The day went on and I learned more.. pics can tell the rest.









And of course I can't end this without showing you pictures of Tequila :)