I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. 2/3 of this is fictional versions of a good journey and a terrible journey. They were outrageous and over the top (in a John Waters' film way) but also fell a bit flat for me. They felt a bit like filler, since not enough happened on the actual hitchhiking journey, but apparently they were written before he left.

The account of the real journey was was probably a lot like the actual journey, sweet in a few places surrounded by long periods of fear, anxiety, and not being able to get a ride (and probably a fair amount of boredom). Certainly not the best travel book I've ever read but it is an interesting twist on the genre from an unusual character.