A young boy grows up reading outdoor magazines, adventure books, and watching astonishing images on the television. Then, in 1960, he embarks on an amazing journey as a hitchhiker, traveling 45,000 miles through 44 states and three countries before settling down in Alaska. An astonishing memoir of a true character, Chuck Wirschem's four year odyssey across North America is an extraordinary tale of adventure that symbolizes the essence on America: freedom. An avid hitchhiker since the age of nine, when he would stay after school to play sports and then thumb rides home afterwards, setting out...