Tequila Sunset

Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico

He is vague about how he acquired fluent Spanish (perhaps the answer is too mundane: he learnt it at school?) or how he came to be on the loose in Mexico with a backpack full of punk rock cassettes.

On the transatlantic flight he was upgraded to first class on the whim of a stewardess (as flight attendants were called back then), where he met a man who suggested that he buy a car in Texas and drive it to Central America where he could sell it at a handsome profit.