Tales of a Road Junky - Tom Thumb's Latest Book!
By Tom Thumb, Posted Jun 26, 2010
 10 years on the road... |
It took 6 years to write…
I’m 33 now and I started traveling when I was 18 and in the years in between the experience were so weird, vivid and illuminating that there was an element of the compulsive involved – why else would I take so much LSD while following a Sufi dance teacher? Why else try to rescue someone from jail in Delhi? Why else end up selling fake Rolexes for the Israeli mafia in Tokyo?
A friend called me an experience junky and from there it was a short conceptual leap to find the name for this website begun back in 2004.
But still I’d never told the story of why I got on the road, how badly lost I got and how I eventually found some way back from The Edge. Tales of a Road Junky was begun when I was contemplating suicide in Brazil and it took 6 years to get enough perspective on what I was going through to tie it all together in a single book.
I’ve finally finished it and made the book available now by donation to read online or download. I hope you enjoy it.
The book features 5 main episodes in my travels:
Goa – Seasons in Paradise
The early years in Goa meeting the freaks from the 60’s and frying my brains dancing to moonlight alone on the beach.
Delhi Jail Story
The flip side to the Indian dream was the drug smuggling that kept most of the freaks on the road in the first place. When it all went wrong I was sent on a mission to rescue a girl facing ten years in one of the worst jails in the world.
Israelity
A couple of years in the Promised Land getting to the heart of the Israeli Dream/Nightmare.
Fake Rolexes in Tokyo
Somehow I ended up working for the Israeli mafia peddling imitation goods in the street in Japan.
Rio de Janeiro
One night my head started to literally short-circuit as I found nowhere left to run to as I got in way over my head with with shady characters in Brazil.
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Hand to Mouth to India 
Hand to Mouth to India is the tale of when I hitchhiked from England to India at the age of 20 with no money at all.
Passing through England, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and finally arriving in Goa where I slept on the beach all season and wrote the book.
Buy it on the Kindle or on the Nook
Tales of a Road Junky 
Tales of a Road Junky covers the last 12 years of my journeys around the world. telling the tale of coming of age in the Goa trance scene, rescuing foreign prisoners in Delhi, selling fake Rolex watches in the street in Tokyo, getting into trouble with the medicine mafia in Brazil and delving deep into the heart of Israelity in the Promised Land.
Buy it on the Kindle or on the Nook
Bozo and the Storyteller
Imagine you, the room you’re in, the planet and everyone in it were all just a Story, figments of imagination in the mind of a Storyteller. But with Hoomanity set on self-destruction, the Storyteller’s health begins to fail and if he should die, what would become of the Story that he tells?
All hope for our world lies in the hands of a 9 year old boy and a foolish Bloon…
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