Lima, Peru: I was robbed last night...

Hey Everyone,

 

Well, the first unfortunate event of the trip happened to me last night.  I don't want to get into the details, but someone, or more likely, some people stole the cash that I had on me after going to a club last night.  It was about 250 Peruvian Soles which equals about $85.  That was about 3 days budget.  :( 

 

I am unharmed.  I am all but positive the robbing was done by a group of guys Ozell and I left with after the club because I had my money when I picked up my coat from the coat check.  I did not particularly want to go with this guys, but Ozell wanted to get a number from one of them.  My intuition was not feeling it, but I did not want to be a party pooper or to be out on the streets without Ozell at 4am or whatever time it was.  It was too far to walk back to the hostel by myself.  I should have expressed my concern with Ozell, but there was no opportune time to do that, and all I had was a feeling.  I still don't know for sure it was them, but after rolling this over in my mind, I think it is the only logical answer.  The guys were friendly enough and one of them lived right around the corner from the club.  There were four of them.  We went to the one guy's place that Ozell liked ostensibly to get his number, but that is the first thing that didn't make sense to me.  Why did it require going back to this guy's place to get his number?  Why couldn't that be handled at the bar?  But again, this could have been an innocent way of just inviting us over for some fun so I didn't put up a fuss.  I wasn't interested in fun because I had too much to drink and knew my "plumbing" would not function properly.  lol I wasn't inebriated to the point where I was mentally incapacitated or unaware of what was going on, but my dick won't work after more than a few drinks.  Plus, I wasn't attracted to these guys.  I was attracted to other guys at the club whose contact information I received at the club.  Anyways, we went to the one guy's place.  Just a room really which was the next red flag to me.  It looked like all of the other necessities needed to constitute a livable dwelling (like the bathroom) were common to the entire floor. 

 

I can't lie and say I didn't enjoy myself a little fooling around with these guys, and they seemed friendly and innocent enough.  But my intuition still was bothering me.  Actually, it was bothering me enough that it was part of the reason I was not responding sexually.  I was thinking about other things.  I even indirectly verbally expressed my wariness by exclaiming more than once that these guys were just like the Sirens who irresistibly lured ancient seamen to their doom with their enchanting voices.  Well, substitute "enchanting voices" with "getting your dick sucked by one guy while kissing and fingering another and watching your partner fuck the other two" and that was our Sirens' call.  It's quite an effective way to distract your targets.  I said this to everyone (including myself) under the guise of jest, but it turns out it was the perfect analogy. Hahaha-  at least I can bitterly laugh about it now.  I wish I could have at least enjoyed the play.  Then I would have just considered this a moderately expensive prostitution event.

 

And given my personality and the fact that this is just the very beginning of our trip, the effects of this unfortunate event will linger with me.  I am the type of person where I will only feel better about losing this money after I have "saved" the equivalent amount of money by not doing some of the things I would like to do.  Take the para gliding over the Lima bluffs for example.  I have decided not to do that and thereby save myself half of what I lost.  I was also hoping to have a nice seafood dinner with Ozell at one of the cliff top restaurants, but now I will eat extremely cheap food for lunch and dinner the next few days.  I understand the perspective and advice that some of you may be thinking, "Sean, don't let this bad event negatively impact your desires and planned activities while you are in Lima.  When will you be able to para glide over the ocean and the city of Lima?"  But, by eliminating these costly activities, I will give myself a peace of mind and will be able to put this event behind me more quickly.  Things would be different if we were at the end of the trip and still had plenty of money left.  But this is our first stop, and if I burn through money at this rate, then we will be back home by Xmas so this is what I have to do.

 

Well, writing about it has made me feel a little better about it also.  Time to take out my physical stress with some physical exercise, and then I will be in a better spot.

 

I'm ready to leave Lima.  I want to move on.  But I need to talk to Ozell about that, and our departure may rely upon when we can schedule transportation to Cuzco....

 

Thanks again to Heiko my German friend who made me laugh and smile with his comforting words.  He is one of the most positive and happy people I have ever met... Du bis ein fantastich Mann, mein Freund!

 

Best wishes to all of you!

 

Sean   :)