The alarm goes off bright and early at 4:55. I'm up, showered, in my car and headed to Miami International by 5:15. I usually park at the Airport Fast Park ($7 per day and a shuttle to the gate), but this time I am parking at the Wyndham Hotel. I pre-paid for my parking at www.unitedairportparking.com, and wound up paying $49.94 for the ten days, instead of the $75 my usual spot would cost.
There was no hassle at the Wyndham, and check-in at Copa was a snap, too. The woman at the counter was the first of - I assume - many people to get a kick out of my bad Spanish, but she appreciated the effort. The announcements claim that the airport is now wireless, but my laptop could only suck in one bar of signal, and I couldn't connect at gate F-9.
Arrival at the Lima airport goes without a hitch. We were the only flight arriving at that time, so the lines at immigration were short, and I got the green light at customs, so I was through in no time at all. Soles trade at about 3.2 to the dollar. I changed $50 at the airport, just to get started.
Many people wind up paying the $20 'list price' for a taxi ride to Miraflores. There's no need to do that. After clearing customs, just ignore the official taxi people, and the first wave of 'taxi, taxi' guys that you pass. The next batch of guys will probably quote you $15, and when they say 15, say, "15 Soles?" They will look at you in horror and then quote you 30 Soles (about $10). That's a fair price. You can get them down to 25 - it is up to you to decide the hunger of the driver and haggle accordingly.
We got to the apartment and mom was waiting for me. The place was a little smaller than I thought (the third bedroom/office could barely fit the computer desk), but it was new, clean, and had a great view. There was a wireless router that I couldn't get my computer to see, but I plugged right into the plug in the wall and was good to go. Mom had a lease and an inventory all set for me to sign, so I signed and paid her. We agreed that she would come Wednesday afternoon to clean the place for me. Home, sweet home.
I went to the Metro supermarket just three blocks away and stocked up on fluids and a couple of things to snack on.
It was now almost 5:00. I had been there long enough without getting laid. All of my possibles for photo model number 100 wouldn't be available until later, and I am nothing if not flexible. I decided that any of the girls on this trip could officially be named my 100th photo subject, and I could take it as it comes, and figure it out later. Call it a rationalization; I don't care - it's MY list.
One of the finalists I had settled upon was Padme. She has an ad on a local escort site, Encantos Latinos ( Padme's Ad). I'm not sure how long the girls' ads stay up, so here's a couple of photos from her ad:
Padme's photos were attractive, her vital statistics met my standards, she answered her phone on the second ring, and she was named after a Star Wars chick - what more could I hope for? She quotes me 150 Soles ($46.88) for the hour, plus another 20 Soles for a taxi ($6.25). We make an appointment for 6:00 pm.
She calls me back at 5:40 to confirm that I really exist and that she has my address right, and says she's leaving then.
At 6:05, she's at my door, looking pretty much like her pictures, except that she's wearing clothes and has a face. She can't be much over five feet tall and can't weigh all that much. Except for the fact that she's surprised that I've only been on the country for two hours and there she is, we keep the chit chat to a minimum and head to the bedroom.
We have a good session. I wasn't expecting much, having a girl come over blind like she did. I just needed to get one notch on my belt right away. I can confirm that the pictures in her ad are, indeed, Padme. Performance-wise, it was more than acceptable - sex in three positions, oral was performed on both participants, and she moaned in all the right places.
Photos: Padme 01 02 03
Aside from my regular dining spots, I had compiled a list of mew possibilities. One of them was Restaurant La Gloria.
Restaurant La Gloria
Calle Atahualpa #201
Miraflores 446-6504
Corner or Atahualpa & Dos de Mayo
The restaurant is two short blocks from Ovalo Miraflores (the circle at the top of Parque Central), so you can walk from just about anywhere in Miraflores.
La Gloria is a small restaurant that has a very good reputation. If the rest of my meals hold up to the quality here, I am in for a treat this week.
While you ponder the menu, the staff gives you a small dish of warm artichoke hearts. The choices covered all parts of the food spectrum - there were fish, seafood, beef and poultry choices, and they all sounded good. The menu was in both Spanish and English. I selected Mariscos al la Parilla (grilled seafood) for my appetizer and the Tuna Pepper Steak for my main dish.
The appetizer featured two different kinds of clams, shrimps, scallops, octopus and calamari. It was delicious, but paled as compared to the tuna. This was a huge tuna filet that was covered in peppercorns and then cooked perfectly to a rare temperature.
My mother would be proud - I cleaned my plate completely. I passed on coffee and dessert, and asked for the check. The total came to 110 Soles ($34.38). The tuna alone would have run $40 in the states, before tax and tip, so I felt that I did really well.
After dinner, I stopped at a drug store to price out generic sildenafil. It's available without a prescription. The store I stopped at had four or five different brands of the generic, at prices ranging from about 4 and a half to 9 Soles per pill. I bought ten of the cheap ones. I finished walking home, dropped off the pills, and left for the casinos by 10:00 pm.
There are three casinos in the tourist area of Miraflores: the Hacienda, Casino Miraflores, and the Marriott. I usually wind up spending most of my time in the last two - they're right across the street from each other.
I killed some time, winning a hot $5 at Casino Miraflores and giving back $2 at the Marriott. The Marriott quadrupled its size about a year ago, and they really didn't have their act together back then, what with all the new employees and pit bosses, etc. They run a more finely-tuned operation now. I even saw them just give a customer back $2 when he complained about something, correctly figuring out that it wasn't worth $2 to argue, and why piss off some guy over such a small amount, especially if he has a 50% chance of being right and you're going to give it to him anyway. I was glad to see the improvement.
I pocket my $3 in winnings and headed to Tequila Rock just before midnight. It was not very crowded. The last few reports that I read that mentioned TR talked about how the selection wasn't that great, so I was a little concerned, but not overly. I always say that it only takes one to make me happy.
At midnight, there were maybe 30 girls, with about 10 that I would call very pretty. I grabbed a seat at the end of the bar at the far left and jut watched. In the next hour and a half, probably another 50 girls showed up. Many of them weren't the most beautiful, but there were plenty that would meet just about anyone's requirements. I saw one girl that I fell in lust with - we smiled at each other, but then she disappeared. I didn't see her for another hour (she was in a corner drinking/talking with some other guy). And by then it was too late.
I was pretty much out of the circle of action, so I didn't get hit on all that much, and I wasn't really encouraging it while I was looking for my lust-object. At around 1:00 am, Carla walked over and decided that I was going to be her customer for the night. I only bought her one drink, and she nursed it for most of the hour. Carla is about 25 years old, 5'9" dark skinned, with long straight hair… a real nice body. The one knock on her looks was her face. She wasn't ugly or anything, but her body deserved a better billboard than the one on top of her shoulders. She told me that she was from Colombia, and moved here with her family a few years ago. We spent about an hour talking and (Carla) dancing by the bar, grinding me when the spirit hit her, and making out.
I wouldn't have picked her on my own, but what's a guy to do? We agreed that she would come to the apartment, let me take some pictures, go at it like animals, sleep over, and do it again in the morning. She had already invested a lot of time in me (TR was pretty full when we left at 2:00 am), so I agreed to $100 for todo la noche (all night).
In the apartment, everything went as planned. Photos (clothed, nude, and pornographic) were taken, sex was had in multiple positions, Carla moaned as necessary, it was all good.
Photos: Carla 04 05
After, we snuggled together in the apartment and fell asleep. My trip was successfully underway.
