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November 19, 2019 30 mins
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.
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