Hospitality and the Traveler
By Tom Thumb, Posted Dec 03, 2006
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First of all you need to get the invites. When you bump into fellow travelers always express your lifelong heartfelt dream to visit their country. Mention your vague plans to visit their country and even if you can’t get their address at least offer to exchange emails.
The important thing is to get as many contacts as you can so that you can build up a good portfolio of potential places to stay. Send emails reminiscing fondly of your meeting with that person and keep the connection strong – you never know when you might find yourself in their corner of the world.
If you’re starting from scratch then there are some excellent resources on the internet for the traveler in need of hospitality:
www.hospitalityclub.org – Here there are plenty of people who actually enjoy having interesting guests from abroad pass by for a few days. It’s free and you can email people all over the world to request a bed or a sofa for a few days.
Tom Thumb’s personal website
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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.
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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.
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Bozo and the Storyteller
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All hope for our world lies in the hands of a 9 year old boy and a foolish Bloon…
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