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Travel Stories

After almost ten years of roaming around the world I have more stories than I can comfortably tell at any dinner party, no matter how patient the audience. 28 years old may be a little young to write an autobiography but I have to tell the story to someone.

So on this page you can find some excerpts of some of the major stories. At times it seemed that I was living like an experience-junky, getting involved in all kinds of escapades just so as to be able to write about it afterwards.

Jail Stories
A smuggler friend of mine got caught with his girlfriend in the Delhi airport with a couple of kilos of hashish. She was facing ten years in Tihar Jail unless he got her out. So while he carried on smuggling drugs to make the money for the bribes, I went to visit her and arrange baksheesh with the lawyers and judges.

Click on the links to read the chapters:

  Chapter 1 English Smugglers and Russian Princesses   Chapter 2 Drugs and police in India
  Chapter 3 Delhi, India   Chapter 4 Tihar Jail, India
  Chapter 5 Travelers and Lawyers in India   Chapter 6 Escape from Jail in India
  Chapter 7 Going Crazy in India   Chapter 8 Indian Festivals, Justice and Hotels
  Chapter 9 Europe and Freedom   Chapter 10 Drug Smuggling in the Middle East
  Chapter 11 Drugs, Lawyers and Islam   Chapter 12 Fear and Loathing in Ramadan
  Chapter 13 Arabs, Male Rape and Running Fast   Chapter 14 Love, Paranoia and Interpol

Street Trader in Tokyo
After Iran away from South Korea I somehow found myself in Japan selling silver rings and fake Rolex watches. I shivered in the cold and sold imitation goods to drunk businessmen on their way back from the blow job bars on the street where I worked. Hassled by the police and the Yakuza, I was just a freak trying to make a few bucks.

  Chapter 1 Work in Japan   Chapter 2 Israelis and Gaijins in Tokyo
  Chapter 3 Selling Silver in Tokyo   Chapter 4 Police and Yakuza in Japan
  Chapter 5 Blow job Bars and Fake Rolex watches in Japan   Chapter 6 Culture and Money in Japan

Cowboy English Teacher
South Korea was the only country I'd ever been warned not to visit. But they made it so easy by paying for the flight of any college graduate. Fortunately they sell fake diplomas on Khao San Road..
Teaching English in South Korea