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to make it happen. My partner flew to California with all the<br />

cash we had "out of state". The plan was to use his parents<br />

Jeep while they were away for the week to drive to Texas and<br />

drop off the product then he fly back to school while I would<br />

then fly to Texas and drive the car and cash back to California.<br />

I greeted my friend at the airport and we went back to<br />

his house. Collecting our cash and heading up to Humboldt<br />

where I was meeting our California connection. After many<br />

hours, driving around looking at our options, we finally settled<br />

on product and spent two hours vacuum sealing the weed<br />

so that I could drive it back to the Bay Area. I left just before<br />

dark, for a seven hour drive after eating just an apple for the<br />

day.<br />

I was unbelievably nervous. I had never driven that much<br />

weed before and the only way from Humboldt to the Bay Area<br />

is through a stretch of road called the Gauntlet which should<br />

speak for itself. I had one spotter driving in front, and another<br />

behind me. The hours passed slowly as I weaved through<br />

traffic in the dark, often losing my spotter and trailing car.<br />

I left my partner’s house at seven that morning and finally<br />

returned at one in the morning the next day. But this was<br />

just the beginning. I spent the rest of the night and the next<br />

morning vacuum sealing the product and packing the car.<br />

Then my friend left for Texas.<br />

A few nerve-wracking days later, he arrived at the location,<br />

where things got off to a bumpy start. our connection<br />

lost a small amount of product in an unfortunate robbery situation,<br />

but the cartel purchased the rest of our product for just<br />

over two hundred grand. We were more than half way there. I<br />

arrived the next night in Texas at midnight. My friend picked<br />

me up at the airport, and we went back to a location outside<br />

of Houston. For the first time in my life, I held nearly a quarter<br />

million dollars in cash. A triumph to say the least: I was<br />

twenty three years old.<br />

I left at four that morning without sleeping. There was not<br />

a single car on the road. Then out of nowhere, a car starts trailing<br />

me. Seconds later, lights flash and that car is pulled over.<br />

I can only assume that the cop pulling over the only other car<br />

on the road, in Texas, in the middle of the night, was coming<br />

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