Thomas Locke Hobbs

Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots.

Tijuana

Saturday night we went to Tijuana to party. I left my SLR on the other side of La Linea so forgive the crappy pictures.

Avenida Revolucion, the main tourist stripped, seemed empty for a Saturday night. I wonder if TJ's tourist demographic has shifted from partying 18 year-olds to pill-popping AARPies getting cheap refills on their prescriptions.

The gay bars in TJ, however, are packed and a lot of fun. We went to El Ranchero, this new placed called Chameleon, and the disco Extasis which is literally a block from the border. If you're looking for more info, I'd recommend this article by Ted Gideonse, who I know from college and who's blog I can heartily recommend, published in San Diego's Gay & Lesbian Times: Tales from TJ: Gay life below the Border

There was no shortage of car traffic at the border. Fortunately the line at the pedestrian crossing was pretty short at 3am.

You can see the plaque marking the exact border in the upper left. Right after I took this picture I heard this booming, American voice shout, "No Pictures!" Ahh, welcome home.

TJ looking back from San Ysidro

Enchiladas with Mole at Sanborns, this Denny's style, 24-hour restaurant chain in Mexico. In DF, at least, it's a popular post-clubbing joint. I joked to my friends that it was probably the most authentically Mexican restaurant we were likely to find.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.