13 episodes
Road Junky Travel Stories Tom Thumb
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Road Junky features the kind of crazy travel stories that will leave you breathless, speechless and wondering whether you should just quit your job, grab a backpack and hit the road. We feature tales from travelers who walk the edge - and often fall off it.
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Hitchhiking across Spain to Morocco
You can read more stories like this one in my book: Tales of a Road Junky: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Road-Junky-Absurd-adventures/dp/1097822346
If you're enjoying this podcast and would like to hear other podcasts I make and also read the stories and articles I write, you can sign up for my newsletter: https://storiesoftomthumb.substack.com/
And if you'd like to meet me in person you could come to one of the events I organise such as The Festival of Creativity in the Czech Republic https://roadjunkyfestival.com
or the retreats in the Sahara Desert I make each winter https://roadjunkyretreat.com -
Selling Fake Rolex watches in Tokyo
The story of my 3 months selling fake Rolexes in Tokyo in 2001.
You can read more about it in my book: Tales of a Road Junky
If you're enjoying this podcast and would like to hear other podcasts I make and also read the stories and articles I write, you can sign up for my newsletter: https://storiesoftomthumb.substack.com/
And if you'd like to meet me in person you could come to one of the events I organise such as The Festival of Creativity in the Czech Republic https://roadjunkyfestival.com
or the retreats in the Sahara Desert I make each winter https://roadjunkyretreat.com -
Teaching English in South Korea
The nightmare story of teaching English in South Korea on a fake university diploma.
If you're enjoying this podcast and would like to hear other podcasts I make and also read the stories and articles I write, you can sign up for my newsletter: https://storiesoftomthumb.substack.com/
And if you'd like to meet me in person you could come to one of the events I organise such as The Festival of Creativity in the Czech Republic https://roadjunkyfestival.com
or the retreats in the Sahara Desert I make each winter https://roadjunkyretreat.com -
Chased by Bedouin in the UAE
When Tom Thumb came out of a rainbow gathering in the desert in Israel he discovered his friends were facing the death penalty in the UAE for smuggling drugs. A professional gambler in London paid for his ticket to go out and there and see if he could help. It ended up with him running down a mountain road, fleeing 2 Bedouin guys who were chasing him in a jeep..
If you have a great story to tell and would like to feature it on the Road Junky podcast feel free to be in touch to tom@tomthumb.org
Or just come and share it around the fire in the Sahara Desert at one of the Road Junky Retreats that take place each winter in Morocco.
www.roadjunkyretreat.com
Sound design for this episode by James Stevens
Theme song by the No Mercy Sisters with Adam Most and Ali Rasim Kocal. -
Getting someone out of jail in India (part 2)
So just imagine: someone close to you is in jail, a terrible jail, in India and they're going to be there for 10 years. Your lawyer there, perhaps the least trustworthy person you've ever met, asks you to send $15,000 in advance to bribe a judge and get her out. Would you do it?
This is the second half of the story of helping get a friend's girlfriend out of jail.
If you have a great story to tell and would like to feature it on the Road Junky podcast feel free to be in touch to tom@tomthumb.org
Or just come and share it around the fire in the Sahara Desert at one of the Road Junky Retreats that take place each winter in Morocco.
www.roadjunkyretreat.com
Sound design for this episode by James Stevens
Theme song by the No Mercy Sisters with Adam Most and Ali Rasim Kocal. -
Getting someone out of jail in India (part 1)
When a friend called up Tom Thumb in 1999 to ask for his help getting his girlfriend out of jail in Delhi, India, he was on a plane a week later. She was facing 10 years behind bars after having been caught at the airport smuggling kilos of charas (hand rolled marijuana) out of India.
It was the kind of dumb story he never should have got involved in. But then that's true of so many good travel stories...
If you have a great story to tell and would like to feature it on the Road Junky podcast feel free to be in touch to tom@tomthumb.org
Or just come and share it around the fire in the Sahara Desert at one of the Road Junky Retreats that take place each winter in Morocco.
www.roadjunkyretreat.com
Sound design for this episode by James Stevens
Theme song by the No Mercy Sisters with Adam Most and Ali Rasim Kocal.