Hitchhiking Stories

By Tom Thumb, Posted Dec 03, 2006

Hitchhiking dreams

Hitchhiking to Scotland – Heroin junkies don’t make good rides. Especially when they rip you off along the way.

The Worst Ride in the World – Hitching in France with no money means you have to put up with everyone. Even the kind of guy who trains his cat to do tricks.

A Long Wait at Perpignant – Would you steal a piece of fruit after waiting at the French/Spanish border for 12 hours?

No blowjobs please, we’re hitchhikers – What would you do if your driver turns around and offers you petty cash in return for oral sex? What if youhad been waiting a really long time for a ride?


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Hand to Mouth to India Hand to Mouth to India book cover

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.


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Tales of a Road Junky road junky travel book

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.


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Bozo and the Storyteller

Bozo and the Storyteller book cover

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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