http://jasonargall.com Marketing and adventure. Business and pleasure. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:39:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The best my card ever got me was an upgrade at the Wynn... http://jasonargall.com/ogilvy-amex-helps-travelers-get-leid/ Just got finished reading some successes from Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek (the book I attribute to changing my life a couple years ago). Here's one of my favorites (this guy put it together over a year of travel): http://jasonargall.com/4-hour-workweek-successes/ Oh yeah, and here's a neat video: http://jasonargall.com/merry-christmas-my-friends/ Just in case anybody is ever trying to brainwash you... You might be getting brainwashed if... (click here) Now you know. http://jasonargall.com/how-to-survive-brainwashing/ Well, it's been almost three months since I posted to my blog and I feel like an update is in order.  Since writing my last post after crossing from Argentina to Chile a lot has happened.  Here are the highlights: I spent a week with a friend in Santiago, Chile. I did ... http://jasonargall.com/the-last-three-months/ I had high expectations for you, Bariloche: Skiing the most beautiful off-piste the Andes has to offer by day. Partying with hoards of Brazilian tourists by night. (Although in Argentina, Bariloche's lifeblood is Brazilian tourism... so much so that it is called "Braziloche".) If only it had snowed instead ... http://jasonargall.com/argentina-to-chile/ Argentina has the best food on the planet. Thanks to superior breeding, there's no doubt they have the best beef on the planet. Thanks to irrigation from the Andes, their wine is consistently excellent. Their Spanish, Italian, German and Swiss food is arguably better than what you'll ... http://jasonargall.com/my-argentine-diet/ Here are some interesting things I saw in Colombia: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="In Colombia, beautiful girls like this one are not uncommon."][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="375" caption="In Colombia, they provide gloves for eating all finger food (ribs, wings, etc.)... "It's the way of the future""][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="In Colombia, human ... http://jasonargall.com/top-10-interesting-things-to-see-in-colombia/ “What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment ... http://jasonargall.com/bye-medellin-hi-bariloche/ Some of us are happy where we are. Some of us are trying to get somewhere we think we will be happy. Others are just trying to get as far away as possible from somewhere they think is making them unhappy. Sometimes life gets tough: psycho exes, ... http://jasonargall.com/how-to-escape/