In April 1997, Matt Jackson quit his job, strode to the edge of the Trans-Canada Highway near Lake Louise, Alberta, and began the journey of a lifetime. His Plan? To spend several months hitchhiking across Canada, meeting Canadians from every walk of life and experiencing firsthand our country's breathtaking landscape. The trip was supposed to take three months - maybe four, tops.

But the road has a mind of its own, as Jackson soon discovered, and he didn't arrive in Newfoundland until three-and-a-half years. later.

Matt Jackson is an author, editor and the president of Summit Studios, a publishing company specializing in books about travel and the outdoors. Matt's first book, The Canada Chronicles: A Four-year Hitchhiking Odyssey, is a Canadian bestseller and won the IPPY award for best North American travel memoir in 2004.

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Pat Morrow is an adventure photographer based in Invermere, B.C. and has worked on magazine, book and corporate assignments, as well as shooting video documentaries worldwide for the past 35 years. He began a collaboration with Jeremy Schmidt that ranged from coverage of canyoneering, back country skiing and mountain culture stories, to launching out with their wives on a seven-month overland journey around the Himalaya, resulting in the book Himalayan Passage. Pat was the first to climb the highest peak on all seven continents (as documented in his book Beyond Everest), and received the Order of Canada for his photographic and exploratory work. He and his wife, Baiba, have won nine national magazine awards, and they now concentrate on volunteer efforts for a local environmental organization called Wildsight.

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