Swampy captures portraits and landscapes of his travels
hopping freight trains and riding highways from North America to Alaska.
As a young man in the early 1960s, he explored the length and breadth of Canada by
hopping freight trains.
After graduating from high school he spent a year hitchhiking around the United States,
hopping freight trains and traveling with a circus as a prop man, then attended Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for fiction.
He has to learn to
hop freight trains, deal with gangsters and face a horror from his past as a soldier during the First World War.