About Tom Thumb

Tom has been on the road since he was 18 pretty much nonstop and ended up in any number of adventures including hitchhiking to India, dancing with sufis on moonlight beaches in Goa, helping people get out of jail in Delhi, selling fake Rolex watches in Tokyo, living as a gringo in Brazil and a Goy in Israel, he's been robbed, laughed at, swindled, attacked, betrayed and exploited in over 40 countries around the world and recommends nothing so much as travel for building character.

After his 17^th nervous breakdown, he traded in a life of living on crumbs fallen from heaven and decided to cash in on his travel experience by founding www.roadjunky.com which allows him to sit around looking important with a laptop most anywhere in the world with a wireless connection.

He now writes novels for children between the ages of 10 and 80 and pretends to live in Sardinia, Italy where he has a pretty shabby yurt set up on a friend's bit of land in the hills. Having become a cult underground media figure and hero of children all over the world, he values his privacy and refuses to give out his address or phone number to anyone who doesn't happen to be female, 23 years old and looks good in a bikini.