Tom Thumb

Writer's Biography

Tom Thumb got his pen name after hitchhiking from England to India at the age of 20 and then writing about the trip in "Hand to Mouth to India" (www.tomthumb.org/travelbooks.shtml) was published in the UK in 2000.

He's been traveling the world without a pause for the last 12 years and now isn't sure how to stop. HIs adventures have included helping foreign prisoners out of jail in India, working as a street merchant in Japan and as a tour guide in Brazil.

He set up www.roadjunky.com in 2004 and now uses that as an excuse when people ask him what he does for a living.

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Featured Travel Stories in Oriental Tales Magazine

Tokyo, Japan: Living in a Gaijin House in Japan - Story by Tom Thumb
- 7th Online Issue

After months of scraping by teaching English in Thailand, I finally decided to follow the advice of my fellow travelers and head to where the money was - Japan. Some people preferred to arrange their jobs and interviews in advance but, being an impulsive kind of traveler, I just jumped on a plane and went.

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