Hey guys Rob LaFond here. I’m not sure who reads these things, but I got this URL from a friend of mine Medellinvibe.com and I like the idea so I wanted to continue it. I have tried many ideas here in Medellin and some of them have worked and others haven’t. I think I always got caught up that I had to make some amazing pice of content and I could just write and post things that were interesting to me, well here we go. People like a story no? Maybe I’ve got one…
Here’s my story:) I moved here to Medellin just over 3 years ago. I was an audio/visual media producer working for an NPR radio station in Santa Monica, California called KCRW. I had great life in LA and there was a lot of adventure. I think growing up in a small city in Massachusetts (I still can’t spell that state), I had a lot of wanderlust and dreams of Los Angeles from everything I saw in the movies and the music. I wondered was it all really there all those people and the glamour. I left MA the first chance I got to see more of the world.
I had gotten an internship working for Epitaph records (the punk rock label with Offspring and Bad Religion). One of the best experiences I ever had was driving across the country with my dad. We stopped at the Gran Ole Opera and saw the Doobie Brother, we saw the grand canyon, and it was the first time I saw the desert.
I remember being in the car, I think we were somewhere near Needles California my dad asked me “So where you gonna stay when we get to LA?” And I had no plan. I was just winging it. I told him “Don’t worry we’ll find me a place, when we get there…” and we did. A great Mexican stye house in Silver Lake with a Yale alumni who was basically genius.