It may be seen as perverse that someone who believes himself to be one of the world's worst travellers should feel compelled to write a book on travel. The task has been undertaken in the knowledge that there are likely to be countless others who share my reluctance to see 'The Lonely Planet'. For them, and the bolder spirits with the opposite attitude, entertainment may be derived from the candid confessions of a neurotic who is aware that the world will laugh at one who considers a walk to the local crossroads, a day out. Friends, with deliberate irony and a superficial knowledge of the classics, refer to me as 'Homer', knowing of this aversion to Odysseys. This amusing tale follows this 'reluctant traveller' on a recent West Coast, Canadian and U.S. road trip.