About two months into what had been a rewarding “personal journey” in India, and after travelling through nearly a dozen airports, Canadian Tina Lewis was detained and almost sent to jail in the country’s Goa province after authorities there questioned a GPS device they found in her luggage.

Lewis, a 51-year-old telemedicine nurse practitioner and wanderlust-fuelled ultra-marathon runner, was going through security at Dabolim International Airport ahead of a flight to Kerala on Dec. 5.