Episode 5
Jot Davies reads Hugh Thomson's account of his 1979 road trip through Mexico to Belize, aged 18 and without knowing how to drive.
Finally arriving in Belize, Hugh discovers that the market for big American cars is not quite as he had believed it to be.
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