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[LastLion]

Originally Posted by drask48

Micky,

Thank you for the welcome and the compliment. I will follow up on your request this weekend and try to post something extensive with substance, regarding Peru and the many available and lovely women there. I will look forward to reading more regarding your posts and John Wayne!

Drask48

D48 yes welcome to the board and boy do we need some solid insight into Peru, that is a gem in diguise and I hope we can get some good insight from you , miraflores (the man ) often posts here maybe you 2 should hook up.

[drask48]

Thank you Last Lion! I believe that Peru is more that a gem in disguise, but a stunning diamond that could brighten any man's day or life. It has some of the most beautiful, intelligent, sincere and caring women I have known in my life( and I probably have known too many!!). Peru surely has women that you need to be very careful about, but I have had the same feeling in USA, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Panama, Salvador, Chile, Mexico and Spain. I will try and elaborate more regarding Peru soon!!

Drask48

[drask48]

In August of 2000, I went to Peru for the first time. I had previously traveled to Colombia four times and I had a girlfriend in Bogota for one year. When that relationship ended I was dating women in the USA and corresponding with a colleague in Lima, Peru. I had been studying Spanish with a private teacher from Colombia and was anxious to try out my newly acquired abilities in a new country. My colleague from Peru invited me to come and visit her country and I hesitantly accepted, not having much knowledge of Peru at that time. Before leaving for Lima, I set up a meeting with a women from Cali, Colombia in Panama and a meeting with a woman in La Paz, Mexico. My plan was to fly to Panama and then to Mexico after a week in Peru. This represented a large challenge for me because I would have to be away from my private practice for almost two weeks and I had never been away before for more than a week. However, I wanted to visit Peru and the two women I was going to meet, were friends of a female friend of mine in the USA, who was originally from Bogota, Colombia.

I remember waiting for the flight in the airport in Newark and it seemed like I was the only gringo on the flight. Now I am quite comfortable with that feeling and I can really embrace it. My colleague met me at the airport in Lima at 5am and was a wonderful and attractive woman, 41 years old. Her age and other factors were an obstacle to forming anything but a great friendship with her and last April I attended her wedding to a great guy from Paris, France. My friend Maria was a great host and she arranged a hotel for me across the street from the US Embassy in Lima, which is a fortress and for me quite interesting. After enjoying lunch with Maria I set out on my own to find a book store to locate some professional books in Spanish. The concierge at my hotel recommended a shopping mall in nearby Surco, se llama Jockey Plaza(en espanol YO-K). It is an enormous and attractive mall the equivalent of most in the Philadelphia region. I will continue this story soon and relate how I met my wife and what happened after my trip to Peru in Panama and Mexico .

Drask48

[drask48]

Well I am in the bookstore in Jockey Plaza enjoying reading a book on Freud in spanish, and I look up and I see my future wife. Instantly I had to approach her and I don't think you really have to ask why! I had attempted this approach hundreds, if not more than a thousand times in the USA when either I was out at a club, or some other social occasion or just a random occurence. Most of the time, like most men, I got very little return for my friendliness and openess to show appreciation to the beauty or .... of a woman. However through my adult years, I have learned how to tolerate and not be frozen by situations that could lead to rejection. I walked over to her and smiled and said: Mi nombre es Darren y me gustaria conocerle. 5 minutes later we were sharing a cup of coffee and for the next week I spent most of my time with my future wife and most of her girlfriends and family. At that time Gabriela was 25 and I was 38 years old. We enjoyed each other's company and I found her friends and family to be extremely open and warm. My wife was living with her family in La Molina and her mom is a delivery room nurse and her father taught at a university. My wife was attending a university for her MBA and like many people in Peru she was struggling to find decent work.

During that first week I visited Miraflores, pizza street, the Marriot Hotel(the Lobby is one my favorite places in the world), various discos, restaurants and ate ceviche for the first time. It was an incredibly fast week where I also was able to attend a large social event at a country club sponsored by the Policia Nacional de Peru(Maria is a psychologist for the National Police and she invited me) and I humbly held my own being the only gringo dancing salsa, merengue and bachata. I love those three dances and I enjoyed the Peruvians appreciating what capabilities I do possess dancing. They can be very flattering or are just great liars!!
I also had the opportunity to talk to and meet some other beautiful women, without really trying. However I knew that I had met someone special, but surely the other temptations were present and remain to be every day I spend in Peru.

I will continue this story soon! Thanks and I do hope someone will benefit from my experience.

drask48

[LastLion]

Love that story. I really enjoy how latinas take a compliment even if they dont like you they are appreciative, and you know what they should be. After all I have found that the latina type that I like take very good care of themselves, make up, staying fit, dressing nice, being courteous, why would they not accept a compliment they deserve them..

Keep up the story, I am all ears D48!!!

[drask48]

Thanks LL and I will try and write some more until my next patient arrives. So I am ready to leave Lima and I have a Colombiana from Cali meeting me in Panama City for 3 days and then I was going to fly to La Paz to meet the other woman in Mexico. I had spoken to each numerous times by telephone and we had seen each others photos and both women were professional ladies. La mujer de Cali tenia 31 anos y de Mexico 34. Both of them were extremely attractive ladies. Of course at this point I did not want my future wife to know I would be meeting other women, so I just kept my mouth shut!!!Gabriela came to the airport with me and her best girlfriend, and we waited for more than 8 hours for my flight. That surely helped solidify many of the feelings I had already developed for her. I knew I would see her again and as I am writing this and remembering the experience I can feel the chills running down my spine. I was actually looking forward to getting back to my life in the USA and determining how I would go forward with Gabriela. The goodbye was not easy, but i was impressed with how maturely my future wife handled it and me too!!!The flight to Panama was 3 and 1/2 hours and I had so many mixed feelings. When I arrived in the airport, Sonia was waiting for me. She was very attractive and we enjoyed 2 days together, however I did not want her for my life and aside from some carino, I really did not want her in my bed. We left on a little shaky terms, but I took her to the airport and saw her off back to Cali. I never have spoken with her again. That last night in Panama I went to a club and had fun dancing and chatting up a group of young Panamanian women, but I guess I already knew in my heart I would not be into getting to know anyone else in a serious way after Gabriela. So I enjoyed the night and the attention and went back to my hotel. I was scheduled to fly to La Paz the next afternoon, but I knew I did not want to go through that experience. So I called Marta in La Paz and told her I had probably met the right person for me and she said she understood and we wished each other luck etc. Now I needed to change my flight back to Newark and somehow I was able to fly First Class from Panama City to Newark without paying anything additional. The next morning I had breakfast with a close and dear friend who had been with me for 20 years and knew all the stories with me and women. He is now 80 years old and when I told him about Gabriela, he just smiled and did not say a word!!!

More to follow....

Drask48

[drask48]

I hope to post more, about my various experiences in Lima and other parts of Peru. I definitely have formulated different strategies a seeker of love and permanence could employ in Lima or other parts of Peru. I will share them soon. However, today I learned that I will be presenting at a large and important conference for psychologists in Lima at the end of April. I would enjoy meeting anyone in Lima at that time. My present plan is to be in Lima from April 23rd to May 1st. Look forward to hearing from anyone who might be in Lima during that time period, and yes I would be happy to show you around, share info, or just have coffee or a drink. The summer is basically over by then, but the weather is not too bad! I also offer my services of translating or helping bridge the language obstacles!!

Drask48

[drask48]

As an afterthought, because I already do this for a friend of mine who is an attorney and lives in the south, I would be pleased to approach any women you are attracted to in Lima, and help arrange a meeting, date, or whatever you want to call it to see if she could be an excellent prospect. I don't guarantee that I am always successful, but I do seem to have had ample successes for friends and myself before. This might not be right for you, but I have always enjoyed the challenge of meeting women in such a manner. Two years ago in Lima I was attending a performance of the national ballet en el centro, and I met a young women who was a friend of one of the dancers. They both were beautiful young women of 22 or 23 years old, and after the performance we enjoyed a drink together with the dancer's mom. My situation only permitted being friendly and outgoing with them, but they both were bright, excellent prospects for a long-term relationship and they both could speak english. I have had similar situations many times in Peru, and many women when they learn I have a Peruvian wife seem to trust me more and have shared how they would love to meet a nice and normal American guy. Tengo una expresion uso con las mujeres en Peru: "Recuerda, soy un gringo, pero no soy stupido!!!"
I think it works most of the time!

Drask48

[Whitey]

Originally Posted by drask48

Tengo una expresion uso con las mujeres en Peru: "Recuerda, soy un gringo, pero no soy stupido!!!"
Drask48

Hmmm ... I tried that but for some reason it didn't work! Maybe I should ditch the shorts and white socks?

[drask48]

Hi Whitey,

The only place I wear shorts and white socks in Peru is at the health club in the Marriott hotel, where I work out!! How did you meet your wife and where? Look forward to any comments you have about Peru!

Saludos

Drask48