Adios Colombia

[DOMINGUIN]

Hello:

I've been back home for a week after 3 weeks in Bogota and a week in Cartagena. The last week in Cartagena was the most wonderful and the hardest part of the month for me. When I got back on the plane to go back to Bogota, I was crying after kissing a woman goodbye and I haven't cried in many years.

I think I had written a post on this forum that I was going to Cartagena on a flier, on the strength of a photo and a proifle to meet a woman I had written to a year ago, after purchasing her address. Even though they didn't make a peso, LAI in Bogota called and arranged the intorduction.  She had received almost 100 emails and letters in two years, but stopped writing back to men because almost no one was coming to meet her in Cartagena, and that is why she didn't write back to me a year ago.  Then, I had no plans to go to Colombia.  

She is 36, even more beautiful then her agency photo, a stunningly beautiful woman, divorced, has an 18 year old daughter who was away for her holidays and who I didn't meet.   When we fist met for drinks and dinner at the Almirante, there was an enotional connection unlike anything that happened in the first three weeks.  We spent every minute possible together for the next four days and I left my heart in Cartagena.  I don't know what will happen, we have talked to each other three times in the week since I came back and emailed each other every day, and the soonest I can get back to Colombia is October.  When we were together in Cartagena, I bought her a silver bracelet as a gift, had our names engraved inside and a short sentiment.  

I met something like 48 or 49 women in a month in Bogota and Cartagena, it was a lot fo work to meet so many women and try to find something out about them, but so well worth it.  I had really wonderful times with about 7 or 8 of the women, I am now in touch with four women, one quickly became just a platonic friend, I met two who I really liked in Bogota and where there was great chemistry and I think I fell head over heels in love in Catagena, and my head is still spinning.  

For all you lurkers and fence sitters, get on the plane.

Adios
Dominguin

[DOMINGUIN]

... in response to Adios Colombia, posted by DOMINGUIN on Jul 16, 2003


Just a response to some recent posts.

I spent 30 days in Bogota and Cartagena, had introductions to 48 women and never came close to thinking that I was being solicited for prostitution, or even asked for an unreasonable amount of money. Several women asked me to take care of taxicab fare for them to go back after we had a date or after a meeting at an agency and I thought that was entirely reasonable and would have done it even if they had not asked. And on the other hand, a couple of women would not pay me pay for their cabs and I would gracefully give in.

With one exception (a 38 year old bodega owner in Cartagena with a terrific figure), no woman I went out with had a bare midriff like the girls that Calipro put up But I wasn't in Cali, the women I went out with were from 33 to 46, almost all were working in professional jobs, everyone had a professional license of some kind or a university degree.  Most of the girls that Calipro showed looked like they were between 18 and 22, and personally, I stopped going out with teenagers when I was 20.

But I did look at his pictures.  I do think that calipro takes all these pictures to reinforce his own self image, but these girls willingly posed for him. Calipro provides a lot of help and a certain kind of expertise for some guys who decide to go to Cali, he offered to help me, and even though I chose not to go to Cali this time, it was a gesture that I appreciated.  He and I are two different hombres from two entirely different backgrounds and we aren't going to agree on much of anything. I made some pointed comments once about his personality on this forum once before, I should have done it off-line with him, and I'm not going to flame him again.

Have a good day eveyone!
Dominguin
   

[JR n Atl]

... in response to Adios Colombia, posted by DOMINGUIN on Jul 16, 2003

D.,

Way to go, amigo! Cartagena is a great place for romance, isn't it? I'll be there again on 8/1 to spend some time with my sweetie, but she's moving back to Bogota after I leave. I'll miss Cartagena, but she and I have resolved that someday we'll return together for a visit. Hope everything works out for you, we're in the process of gathering docs for starting the K-1 process. I couldn't be happier that I took the decision to truck up to Cartagena on my first trip to Colombia.

JR

[DOMINGUIN]

... in response to Re: Adios Colombia, posted by JR n Atl on Jul 17, 2003


JR:

I'm sure that you will keep us posted. I remember seeing some photos that you put up of your lady in Cartagena and she was a beautiful woman. With two weeks to go, I'm sure you're putting crosses on the calendar! Suerete, amigo!

Dominguin

[lswote]

... in response to Re: Adios Colombia, posted by JR n Atl on Jul 17, 2003

Wanted to thank you for trying to call me a couple weeks back.  Even though we never did hook up, it meant a lot to me at the time to have someone extend a hand to me.  Thanks, and maybe we will actually talk sometime in the future.  Best wishes with your gal.

[Miguel]

... in response to Adios Colombia, posted by DOMINGUIN on Jul 16, 2003

Congratulations, Hope it works out.