Mar 24
Meg & Meg and John, Humboldt world air
Meg was a stunningly Beautiful woman.
When I met her she was a Stewardess for World Air. Her primary work was flying Troops to and from Vietnam.
She was Friends with frank and patty, and when she was in the bay area she would often spend a few nights at Franks place. (layovers)
I really liked her and she was friendly with me , just friends.
She would bring lots of great Pot from south east Asia , apparently she was staff and was not checked by customs so she could easily smuggle drugs.
I remember a few times she came back and we would spend time at Franks apartment on Haste across he street from the Theater (Cinema arts) One particular afternoon she invited me to Franks and we smoked som Vietnamese Pot it was dark and sticky very potent. we listened tot he new Santana album. yes that was a thing to get together and listen to the latest albums. I think it was "Abraxis."
April 17, 1970. Santana began sessions for what would be their breakthrough album, Abraxas, at Wally Heider's Recording Studio, San Francisco, California. When released in September of that year, it peaked at No.1.
Fast forward 1981
Meg moved to Humboldt county with John, they had a pot farm .
They invited me up to consult on security Ideas. Problem was to know when vehicles were approaching several miles down the road. (I recommended a motion sensor and a CB radio)
This was a turning point for me. I realized that I was taking some risks and skirting on the edges of illegal activities.This was reinforced by a later incident where Frank actually nearly got me in serious trouble. (stole my parking stickers and got caught at LBL stealing glassware. )
That was the incident that ended my friendship with Frank. I felt totally betrayed.
Meg story As I mentioned Meg was a very pretty woman. and flirty / the story I heard was that she had participated in a Smuggling operation from South America. the Drug was cocaine and the method was overland. the group had penetrated a legitimate documentary film team and had several vehicles and a real project. along the way they had sequestered a significant quantity of Cocaine in the vehicles.
From whet I understood Meg would distract border officials. this apparently was successful since Meg was never caught.
I also understood she stopped smuggling when the Vietnam war ended and her lack of customs avoidance made it far more risky. Also I think she came under some pressure from organized smugglers to take risks she was no longer comfortable with.
Tidbit , one of the discussions while visiting at Humboldt location was about the difficulty in sequestering large amounts of cash from the very lucrative Pot business.
For my services in consulting that summer, I was presented with two feed sacks full of small bud Pot and clippings. , it was delivered around Christmas 1980 -82 In the middle of the night by a courtier. I had no Idea it was even coming. Amazing. I sold some and later actually threw a lot of it away,Just not into it anymore.
I have not seen or spoken to anyone from that group since., It was pretty scary and I had a son to raise alone.
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