Time To Get To Know Me -- Maybe

Later Hi, I’m Lee Peal, I live in Newnan, Georgia now. Newnan
is located in the Southeastern part of the United States. I am
married to a lovely Filipina from Cebu City on the island of
Cebu near the center of the Philippines. I am in my 50’s and
have been a guard for 22 years. I decided to put this webpage
together to tell a little about myself, my family, my on going
education, and the business ventures and activities I’m ether
involved in now or have been involved in. But, I suppose I
should first tell the reader a little of where I came from. So,
here goes.

Some people probably wonder why I went half way around
the world to find the love of my life. Quite frankly, that’s not
the way things started out. I was lonely and wanted a pen
friend to talk too. I had a magazine of some kind, I think on
survival, but may have been something else. In the back
were advertisements for pen friend services, and I thought
I would give it shot.

I mailed off my order for I think eight lists, each list contained
about nine names and addresses of Asian women seeking pen
friends. When my order came in, I followed the instructions,
sat down and wrote each woman on my lists a letter telling
them a little about me and enclosing two pictures. The next
step was to mail them off and wait …and wait…and eventually
the letters began to roll in one after the other. According to
my instructions, I was supposed to write each one back.
Which I did….almost. There were a couple I couldn’t bring
myself to write back to and I’ll leave it at that.

When the letters came in, I went through them one by one.
But, there was a certain letter I kept reading over and over.
Her letter didn’t have the same feel as the other letters. She
was different somehow, she basically wrote the same type of
letter the other women did, still her letter had a different feel
to it. She wrote back, I wrote back. As the letters came in,
they went to the trash, except her letters. Time after time,
our letters crossed the Pacific …..again, and again, and again.

Eventually, the time came that I just had to meet this
Philippine Jewel. The first trip was miserable. I swear
Murphy’s Law was in full swing. I took off from Atlanta
bound for Dallas Texas, no problem. Then from Dallas Texas
to Japan, will somebody please tell me why that plane just
had to skirt around Alaska. When we reached Japan, we
were late. Philippine Airlines had already left. That meant I
had to wait about three hours for the next plane. By the time
I got to Manila, the domestic airport I was to catch my next
plane in had already shut down.

Now, here I was, a stranger in a strange city in a country I had
never been too before. And I must say, one I had never heard
very much about. The only American I thought and as far as
I could tell, the only person around me that could speak English.
I thought, now this is going to be a fun night. Then another
American walked up and introduced himself. His name was Dan
(something), he was in Manila for business.

As we talked and got acquainted, h told me about his business.
He said he comes in about eight or nine times a year for a couple
of weeks and leaves. I don’t know how it worked, but he said he
would come to the Philippines and purchase vacation packages,
take them back to the United States and sell them. At first, I
did think there could possibly be that much profit to it, until he
told me he would buy no less than 50 which would usually cost
him around $5,000. He said he would have the money wired to
a seller’s back in the Philippines and have a courier to transport
them back to the United States. The in the U.S., he would sell
the packages for roughly ten times what they cost him.

Gee Whiz! He pays $5,000 here for something he can sell in
the states for $50,000, and he never touches the merchandise?
Now, today I am wishing I could remember this guy’s full
name and address, but the card he gave me was lost some-
where during my stay.

Now, did you catch the lesson here, there is one very good
one if you can find it. Try checking the links behind some of
the words, that’s where they are. There is a lot more to
come, so keep checking back. You just may learn something
you didn’t know was possible.


Lee