I am the next #TravelChannelStar because no one else is crazy enough to take a 26 hours turnaround trip for one hamburger!

It’s 12:43 a.m. I just returned home from an errand in North Hollywood, and I’m feeling a bit down. I tend to get moody sometimes. I was supposed to wake up at 3:00 a.m. to head to Venice Beach for some business, but I’m probably not going to do that.

Anyway, despite my earlier mood, my night has taken a positive turn. I left my live audition for Travel Channel’s #TravelChannelStar search feeling a bit strange. I know I didn’t perform as well as I wanted or envisioned. However, seeing myself in the highlight reel makes me feel like I didn’t do as badly as I initially thought.

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The weekend before the audition, I drove to Phoenix to try Paradise Valley Burger Co. (after hearing about them on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives) for my YouTube Channel’s series, The Burger Crawl. After leaving Arizona, I drove straight to Chatsworth to have dinner at Lenny’s Smokehouse BBQ because I was cast in an upcoming episode of a show for FYI. During this 26-hour turnaround trip, I made stops, relaxed in nature, and recorded sound bites that would later become my self-submitted audition tape for Travel Channel. Ultimately, I decided to audition in person. My thought during the trip was that perhaps no one else in the country would be crazy enough to drive from Los Angeles to Phoenix just to try one hamburger, then drive past home by 40 miles for dinner. My premise was, and still is, that I want to be the next #TravelChannelStar because no one else is willing to do the crazy things I’ll do—just for the experience.

I really love Hamburgers…see Paradise Valley Burger Co.’s Brulee Burger below…

The Brulee Burger