i've said this before but it's worth another round. there are a couple of million tourists (conservative number) a year that visit the DR, many of them are business people, some of them smart, rich, with connections, and many of them are also thinking of a way to have the best of two worlds. there are a million dominicans in NYC, some of them are smart, rich, businessmen with connections, they are also thinking of a way to live in paradise and still be in NY so the kids can go to school, and they probably speak excellent spanish. there are probably, at least, a couple of hundred dominicans living in europe that also dream of a double life. a lot of it is not meant to make a million dollars but at least cover the cost of airplane TX and dominican girlfriend. when i get into that mode of thought i have to ask myself, "what makes me think that i am so smart that i can come up with something that more than a million people have already been trying to figure out, people i am sure that, at least the majority, are smarter than I?" i then realize that that if it could be done, then someone is already is doing it, put my eyes back on the girls on the beach and start thinking of important things like, "is she too young?,,is her father, boyfriend, big brother around? how do i hide this from my wife?" not trying to rain on any parades, there are opportunities, years ago when computers were a "new" thing, a lot of pilots would stuff their briefcases with computer chips and they made real good money, it can be done, someone is out there right now with the new hot import/export except they ain't sharing the info with me, and, it needs to fit in a suitcase, but there are cartels that handle that too! coffee? been discussed to death on this board. the answer, for me, has always been to put in another shift at McDonalds, save that money for the plane TX..........