Connel Murray takes the reader on a journey from an Oregon farmstead without electricity or indoor plumbing, through adventures in a POW camp and the Navy, as well as hopping freight trains to explore much of the nation. With wry humor he describes promoting sophisticated San Francisco's first-and last-bullfight, as well as acquiring baseball games for free and selling them for money. A move to Alaska gave him the chance to interact with moose, and also to pilot a homemade watercraft down 80 miles of wilderness river. He describes the joys and tribulations of growing a family in the 49th state, along with starting and growing a business. Even the minutia of life becomes entertaining when it's described by Murray, in this revealing memoir.