Tom Gilligan is a retired psychologist. The death of his father precipitated a change in his career from marketing to psychology, a change that required many years as a full-time mature student attending various universities in Canada. During that time, he became separated from his two children. This memoir tells the tale of his solo journey across Canada on a used bicycle to rejoin them. At times he was alone and at risk in a world that had not yet developed such things as cell phones, personal computers, and the internet to facilitate communication. He now lives on a small island off the west coast of British Columbia with his wife and a large dog.