90 Degrees to Zamboanga: Memoirs of a 20-year Marijuana Smuggling Adventure - Paperback

by Rick Bibbero (Author)

Sometimes comedic and sometimes deadly serious; the story is told by one of its major participants. Naive college students in the late 1960s, looking for excitement and adventure, smuggle kilos of marijuana on their backs over the Mexican border and into the United States. This memoir follows their lives, the cast of characters they meet along the way, and their smuggling adventures for the next two decades as their business ventures rise and fall and their escapades circle the globe, developing into a major criminal enterprise."November 1974: we were still ten days sail from our destination in Thailand where the four of us planned to load our 41-foot sailboat with a ton of the best marijuana on the face of the planet. This would be the largest single load of Thai sticks ever brought to the U.S. to date... if we made it home to California. However, we'd just survived a category four storm that had battered us and left all of our primary navigational equipment waterlogged and useless and us lost somewhere in the Sulu Sea. I figured that we may have been blown some 200 miles off course to the south and were now in some of the most notorious pirate infested waters in the world."

Author Biography

Aside from the 25 years of his life in the marijuana business and its aftermath as thoroughly detailed in this book, Rick Bibbero has since worked as a legal assistant using some of the legal research and writing skills he acquired as a jailhouse lawyer. He also has been both a licensed general contractor and real estate agent. In 2002 Rick gained a little more notoriety by winning a contest to design a new license plate for the State of Nevada. Throughout his life Rick has been an avid skier and snowboarder who also enjoys playing golf, pickleball, bicycling, horseback riding and reading. He and his wife have a daughter, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild and today along with their two dogs are enjoying their golden years and as he put it: "We're living life."