Leaving Lake Agassiz Memoirs Based on a true story...in 1970, as a teenager, James Hill’s father suffers the life altering effects of a cancerous brian tumor operation. A few years later, James escapes family and a sheltered small town life. While hitchhiking down the West coast of United Sates and into Mexico, the television series ‘Wild Kingdom,’ of predator vs. prey takes on a personal reality. Returning to British Columbia, Canada, he searches for a new life and to find the girl of his dreams. Years later, while fighting stage four cancer, James writes down his West coast hitchhiking adventures before they are lost forever.