The Buenos Aires Pub Crawl Staff
The Buenos Aires Crawl consists of native English and Spanish speakers who know what it means to be a traveler in Buenos Aires. Our staff come from a variety of cultural backgrounds and we have seen every kind of traveler out there and understand what it takes to have a great experience.
The Buenos Aires Pub Crawl Staff pride themselves on the fact that they know the ins and outs of the Buenos Aires nightlife and are here to share it with you from an insider perspective.
Jared
Jared is another member of the team that comes from the great state of California. Born and raised outside of downtown LA in calm, quiet Monrovia, CA, Jared, quickly grew tired of small house parties and killing himself in the 8 to 5. After holding things down in a family business for a little over a year he decided to do what any sane, intelligent, 20-something would do. Completely shuck his responsibilities, try to learn a second language and travel.
Landing the job that he could never have dreamed of, Jared, lives and works in BA as the Pub Crawls Marketing Manager. “It’s not all fun and games,” Jared is quick to say, “All day Facebook takes a toll on one’s eyes and all night drinking on one’s liver, but I do my best."
Yeah Jared, we agree, sounds like a tough life.
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"Outlaw"
Parker Outlaw Hodge is yet another member of the ginger clan working for the Buenos Aires Pub Crawl. “Outlaw”, was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, loving every second of his ATL upbringing.
“Yes, my middle name is Outlaw,” Parker is forced to always respond, “No I’m not kidding… What can I say?” He asks, shrugging his shoulders, “It’s just a family name, I guess I must come from a long line of badasses”.
Growing up in a loving family of four with an older brother, he lived in Decatur, Georgia in the same house for 21 years. Staying stationary, however, was never Parker. “I have traveled all over the world and have seen many beautiful places, but there is nothing like Buenos Aires.” Attending “Georgia State University” and being a proud member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, Parker, considers himself in the happy medium between “frat boy” and “hippie”.
We’re down for that, Parker, you’re a rare breed perfectly suited for BAPC.
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Giselle
Giselle was born and raised in Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C. Because her parents are Peruvian, she grew up speaking spanish and traveling often to Latin America. She attended the University of Virginia, and in an attempt to become less of a `gringa` and go back to her roots, Giselle decided to study abroad in Buenos Aires her junior year. That semester she was first exposed to the joys and fun times of BAPC, along with all the countless other amazing things the city has to offer.
Returning to Buenos Aires after graduating with degrees in Foreign Affairs and Latin American Studies, Giselle is thrilled to be back and a part of the pub crawl staff. Although she plans to travel the world, for now she loves living in Buenos Aires, and sharing her enthusiasm for the city with pub crawlers and new friends from all over the world. She can usually be found attempting to speak Portuguese with any Brazilians on pub crawl or dancing around to the latest reggaeton jams.
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Richard
Richard is not a figure of robust masculinity: he cooks and cleans,
and uses lip balm. He doesn't watch TV. Rarely, a movie. He never celebrates his birthday or Christmas. He believes in capitalism and green tea. His favorite religious festivals are Halloween and St Patrick's Day. He wishes he were from New York City -- despite never actually having been there. He specialises in seasonally-inappropriate footwear, British spelling, and having prolific chest-hair.
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Joni
Like the Song «Joni la gente esta muy loca » is Joni aswell muy loca. Back in Austria Joni spend his time with dancing in the moonlight, snowboarding and asking himself why he got no hair on his chest. To find the answer he travelled to Costa Rica, where he learned to know and love Latin America. In Buenos Aires Joni is working during daytime with old people and during nighttime with drunk people. He says that this keeps him in balance.
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Noru
Noru, also known by his Argentine name Fernando, just returned to Buenos Aires from a yearlong culinary internship in northern Japan. Check out his photos on
his website
!
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Ale
Ale was born in Guatemala, and lived there for 7 years. Then she moved to El Salvador and lived there until recently coming to Buenos Aires to continue her studies in advertising and marketing. She was a badminton champion in El Salvador and belonged to the national team, and so got to travel to many places to compete in different tournaments.
Her most important medal is from the 2007 Junior Panamerican championship in Campinas, Brazil. She loves to design, download YouTube tutorials, and use Twitter and StumbleUpon.
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John
Big John Nordstrom attended The University of San Diego and during his time spent a semester in Spain. Falling in love with the lifestyle and running with the bulls in San Fermin he always wanted to live abroad after returning to the states. After working in Los Angeles for a year he decided enough was enough and moved to Buenos Aires. He can now be found at numerous bars and clubs throughout Buenos Aires. If you'd ever like to hear what it is like running with the bulls just simply buy him a beer that will win his heart!
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Alexia
Alexia is another one of those complicated stories which makes it hard for her to answer a simple question like "Where are you from?" Basically she was born in Ecuador, Guayaquil to a Dutch father and Uruguayan/Italian mother and at 3 months old she started her journey to travel the world which she continues till this day. After having lived in 7 countries and vacationed in even more, she grew to love visiting and learning about different places, cultures and food (especially spicy!). She is currently studying Fashion Design, doing an Internship for an Argentine fashion designer and working for the Pub Crawl. In her free time she likes to take on personal projects of Make-up & Special FX and enjoys hobbies like painting, cooking, designing and making her own clothes, or simply rolling round on the floor with her 4 legged freaks! People's first impression of her is that she's a tough cookie, but those who really know her often refer to her as being a Tootsie pop: hard on the outside, but a real softie on the inside!
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Sylvana
Sylvana is one of those "international kids". She was born in Colombia and raised mostly in Miami, FL She has lived in 5 more countries. She's studying to be a chef, a career she hopes will allow her to keep traveling and see all corners of the world. Aside from English, she speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. She came to Argentina to continue culinary studies and plans to study further in Italy soon.
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Caro
From the land of the "Che, boludo" comes Caro, a really (and we mean really) tall girl who loves to party, drink beer and meet people from all around the world. Born in Argentina but with some French blood, she has grown in between two different worlds that gave her the goal of traveling around the world once she has finished her studies of Graphic Design. But for the moment she enjoys eating ice cream, learning new languages with the pub crawlers and partying with the Pub Crawl every night she can.
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Ana
Born and raised in Bogotá, Ana is a psychology student at UBA, having previously studied at Universidad de La Sabana in Colombia.
She loves meeting new people and creating new friendships.
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Darío
Darío was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He loves to go to the beach, and has lived in Europe and the United States. In Buenos Aires he is studying filmmaking.
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Silvi
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Silvi is an outgoing candy lover Porteña who enjoys meeting new people and having fun. Her small size won't stop her from being easily found at a Pub Crawl, but if she's not there, she will probably be giving Free Hugs, participating and/or organizing flashmobs or urban games, mostly with her group, Buenos Aires Flashmob, or whoever organizes something.
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María
María was born and raised in El Salvador with Colombian roots. She lived six months in Bogotá, then
moved back to San Salvador and later decided to get out of the small city, and
ended up in Buenos Aires finishing her degree in advertising. She is addicted to Coca-Cola and loves
anything that has to do with writing, especially quotes (she owns a quote book and it's her
bible). One of the best things this city has taught her is how to party!
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Rufus
After 7 years of a professional carreer of squirrel-wrestling, Dutch native Rufus van Baardwijk decided to change his life around and come to South America to find his fire. He (and his infamous red leather jacket) travelled through this great continent, encountering many adventures and ocassionally showing off his squirrel-wrestling skills along the way, because after all, this was a past he had troubles with leaving behind. After 3 months of batting down baby seals on the coast of Peru, selling their skin for high prices in the USA, he had saved up enough money to come to the great city called Buenos Aires. Here he started working for the pubcrawl and has done that ever since his arrival. It seems like the good old wrestling years are finally behind him... Or are they? DUM-DUM-DUMMM...
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Rony
Rony was born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, but was also raised in Mexico, El Salvador and Miami. But he considers himself to be a true Salvadorian at heart. With such a crazy background, Rony has become a combination of adventure, spontaneity, and 'joie de vivre'. At a very young age, he demonstrated true passion for professional extreme sports, preference for laughing-till-your-abs-are-sore, and watching Will Ferrel movies. After graduating from highschool, he decided to live it up in London, Ontario while attending college. This is where his pursuit for a limitless life began, which ultimately led him to the amazing Argentina to continue his studies. After a series of events, Rony has learned to appreciate that life is short, and that it is usually the small things in life that really count. He claims that he is still in the process of learning how to enjoy himself every single day of his life. The opportunity of meeting new people and discovering different cultures is at the top of his list. When he is not in the University following his true passion or having the best time on pub crawl, he likes to tune the world down by listening to some music and skating down the Buenos Aires streets.
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Mingo
Mingo (short for "Domingo") finished school in June of 2011, and then spent a few months working as a DJ in Hamburg, a beautiful city in the north of Germany. Looking for a more expedient activity he ventured to Argentina to learn Spanish and volunteer at a social project in Dock Sur, a neighborhood in the province of Buenos Aires.
Only working at the social project twice a week, Mingo had plenty of spare time, which he now spends working at Pub Crawl, a nice visit to his lifestyle back in Germany.
Apart from partying, 19-year-old Mingo enjoys reading nutrition books, watching "Entourage" and snowboarding. Also he likes to listen to music and puts a lot of effort into convincing people to become vegetarians.
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Grant
Grant was born in Tifton, Georgia with a tumultuous tuft of chest hair. Originally planning on studying aviation, he graduated from the University of Illinois in the school of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Putting that degree to good use, he decided to move to Argentina to teach the señoritas how to party. He currently lays claim to the title of Tallest Pub Crawl Staff.
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Cata
Cata is a strange kind of argentine. She was born and raised in Buenos Aires, but doesn´t like mate, can´t take too much dulce de leche, drinks coffee with just one spoon of sugar, and…loves, LOVES spicy food. After many years of childhood dancing and singing on tables as they were real Stadium stages, she found out music was her thing. Started playing guitar at 10 and dreaming about playing real live shows until she made that true at 14. Since then, she affirms that she can´t live without her band , her acoustic covers and making her own music. Started the Psychology career at UBA, but dropped it for Art with music orientation. Also loves photography and is crazy about her camera. She is extremely stubborn, but really enjoys talking and discussing different points of views. Claims that the secret of having a great night is not having any expectations, just good energy and letting life surprise you. And she´s ready to have a beer with you whenever you want.
