Jarek Ambrozuk
(a.k.a. Jerry, a.k.a. Michael Lee Smith, a.k.a. Lewis Gomez)
Dianne and I, two star-crossed teenage sweethearts, were both still in high school when we first concocted our elaborate Cessna C150 aircraft elopement plan. Young and in love, we simply wanted to disappear quietly without causing anyone anguish. But when on the eve of our greatest adventure Dianne tragically died, both of our worlds ended.

Distraught and in shock, I would spend the next 24 years searching for answers and piecing my life back together in Texas before returning to Montana to face the presumptuous Flathead County authorities.

Read more and find out:
• how Dianne and I met and fell in love
• how we planned our utopian fantasy fairy tale
• what happened the night of the accident
• what my emotional state was like in the days that followed
• what the U.S. and Canadian investigations turned up
• how I finally ended up in Dallas, Texas
• what my life was like for the next 24 years
• how and why I was eventually apprehended
• how each of my State, Federal and Immigration cases turned out, and
• how I finally returned home to my family and friends in Canada a quarter of a century later