Crime, drugs, hippies, kingpins, drug dealers and drug deals were all prevalent throughout the state of Florida when I visited the region by means of hitchhiking through and sometimes spending time working in the southern vegetable fields as well as the orange groves of the middle area of the state.
At the bars, roadside taverns, pool halls and game rooms I ran into drug dealers pushing their drugs to their buyers with intent to use them. There was other criminal involvement within the privacy of those establishments doing their business with each other.
I actually ran into used car dealerships and other private individuals that were willing to buy stolen cars.
Drug use was wide and rampant in the localities I frequented. Wide variety of drugs available everywhere inclusive of marijuana that primarily was smuggled into the state from many foreign sources by airplane and ships sold for huge profits.
These illegal substances also shipped into northern states by car, trucks and other vehicles. The hi-ways beaten up and down with carriers of these drugs transportation to destinations in northern states where they were unloaded and sold to buyers and distributors in those locations.
I have so much firsthand criminal background from these hitchhiking adventures and other experiences throughout my lifetime that I decided when beginning my authorship that this was one genre I could qualify to write in.
Therefore, I wrote Fantastic Florida Fun and some other books because I wanted to write what I knew and was perceptive and knowledgeable about. My prior knowledge gained through personal experience became invaluable to my storylines.
In my mystery thriller novelette on these topics already researched by my own travels through the Florida area I also introduced the aspect of a hypnosis induced incestuous scandal that brought the creator of that event forced to face the music by the boyfriend of the girlfriend that was the instigator’s downfall.
Timothy Louis Baker
Fantastic Florida Fun
Florida, crime, drugs, hippies, dealers, hitchhiking
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