Imagine my surprise, while hitchhiking in Eastern Turkey, to find myself sitting in the cab of a truck right next to a gun-running terrorist...

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When you pay a local driver to take you somewhere in the city, its reasonable to expect that they'll take you all the way to your destination...

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Send your questions about these travel stories to ⁠thewitchpod@gmail.com⁠ and they could be featured in an episode of the Who Is This Crazy Hag? Podcast.

Today's reading is from the collection of true short travel⁠ stories ⁠Phew! Argh! Eeew! Travel Tales I Never Told Mum⁠. If you'd like to read along as we tell each story, you can grab a paperback from Amazon at the link above, or email ⁠thewitchpod@gmail.com⁠ to buy an e-book directly—this way, the author receives 100% of the sale money instead of Amazon taking most of it.

If you're listening and reading as a book club or even a group of friends, let us know via email or on Bluesky at ⁠@thewitchpod.bsky.social⁠ or comment on the platform where you are listening so we can give you a shout-out on one of the following episodes. Don't forget to let us ⁠know where you are listening in the world.

Special thanks to ⁠Secret Garden⁠ and ⁠SciBugs⁠ for their support.

You can find the Who Is This Crazy Hag podcast on ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, ⁠Substack⁠, ⁠Amazon Music⁠, and ⁠Castbox⁠.⁠ Hit the Follow/Subscribe button on one of these platforms to get automatic uploads of each new episode every week. You can also leave comments and feedback on all of these platforms. We can't wait to read your comments. Meantime, sit back, relax, and enjoy this totally insane travel story.

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The devastating impact of a mindless act of terrorism can have a lifelong effect on your psyche. This story is about coming face to face with terrorism...

In light of recent world events, I’d just like to mention that the seemingly odd timing of the release of this particular story is purely coincidental and the stories are being read in order from the beginning to the end of the book.

Read more adventures on the ⁠BooksByRoni Substack⁠ where it's free to subscribe (or you could choose to support a working artist/author with a few bucks each month) and read weekly stories about life in the jungle.

Send your questions about these travel stories to thewitchpod@gmail.com⁠ and they could be featured in an episode of the Who Is This Crazy Hag? Podcast.

Today's reading is from the collection of true short travel stories ⁠Phew! Argh! Eeew! Travel Tales I Never Told Mum⁠. If you'd like to read along as we tell each story, you can grab a paperback from Amazon at the link above, or email ⁠thewitchpod@gmail.com⁠ to buy an e-book directly—this way, the author receives 100% of the sale money instead of Amazon taking most of it.

If you're listening and reading as a book club or even a group of friends, let us know via email or on Bluesky at ⁠@thewitchpod.bsky.social⁠ or comment on the platform where you are listening so we can give you a shout-out on one of the following episodes. Don't forget to let us know where you are listening in the world.

Special thanks to ⁠Secret Garden⁠ and ⁠SciBugs⁠ for their support.

You can find the Who Is This Crazy Hag podcast on⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, ⁠Substack⁠, ⁠Amazon Music⁠, and ⁠Castbox⁠. Hit the Follow/Subscribe button on one of these platforms to get automatic uploads of each new episode every week. You can also leave comments and feedback on all of these platforms. We can't wait to read your comments. Meantime, sit back, relax, and enjoy this totally insane travel story.

The Who Is This Crazy Hag Podcast is created, written, read, edited, mixed, produced, and published by BooksByRoni.