Bob goes off to college...but not for long. Instead, he takes his first real step as an adult and strikes out on his own when he and a couple of friends split for life in the wilds of Alaska. They don't make it. Back in southern California, Bob gets into auto racing.

Bob goes off to college...but not for long. Instead, he takes his first real step as an adult and strikes out on his own when he and a couple of friends split for life in the wilds of Alaska. They don't make it. Back in southern California, Bob gets into auto racing.

Episode 4: Cheechako

Once the most-wanted pot smuggler on the West Coast, Robert Brewer — pilot, yachtie, racecar driver — has fashioned a life of pure adventure. This is his story, in his own words, a remarkable tale of moonlit flights over the Mexican desert, of trimarans filled with kilos of pot, of betrayal and deception; a story set in the lee of the Channel Islands, on a beach in Costa Rica, in a prison cell in San Salvador. There are Panamanian drug traffickers, bumbling DEA agents, gun-wielding Sandinistas, and an Egyptian girl with an ounce of pot in her panties. For thirty years, from the first Cessna load to the last wiretap, the government tried to bust him.
Meet Bob Brewer, the one they couldn't catch...

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Once the most-wanted pot smuggler on the West Coast, Robert Brewer — pilot, yachtie, racecar driver — has fashioned a life of pure adventure. This is his story, in his own words, a remarkable tale of moonlit flights over the Mexican desert, of trimarans filled with kilos of pot, of betrayal and deception; a story set in the lee of the Channel Islands, on a beach in Costa Rica, in a prison cell in San Salvador. There are Panamanian drug traffickers, bumbling DEA agents, gun-wielding Sandinistas, and an Egyptian girl with an ounce of pot in her panties. For thirty years, from the first Cessna load to the last wiretap, the government tried to bust him. Meet Bob Brewer, the one they couldn't catch...

Once the most-wanted pot smuggler on the West Coast, Robert Brewer — pilot, yachtie, racecar driver — has fashioned a life of pure adventure. This is his story, in his own words, a remarkable tale of moonlit flights over the Mexican desert, of trimarans filled with kilos of pot, of betrayal and deception; a story set in the lee of the Channel Islands, on a beach in Costa Rica, in a prison cell in San Salvador. There are Panamanian drug traffickers, bumbling DEA agents, gun-wielding Sandinistas, and an Egyptian girl with an ounce of pot in her panties. For thirty years, from the first Cessna load to the last wiretap, the government tried to bust him.
Meet Bob Brewer, the one they couldn't catch...

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