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where he was born and raised
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he finished high school and started college and the last time his family seen him was at college graduation
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Chris hitches a ride with a trucker all the way down to Needles, CA.
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Unfortunately, after reaching the Mexican Border, the Colorado river diverts into a vast network of canals used for irrigation.
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He works in an Italian restaurant for a few months until he again feels displaced in society and goes back on the road.
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Chris's final major stop before he heads north to live out his long awaited Alaskan wilderness fantasy. He goes back to Carthage to visit his good friend Wayne Westerberg, who he met a year and a half earlier.
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Jim gives him a ride all the way to Healy, Alaska, to the edge of the Stampede Trail, and becomes the last person to ever see Chris alive. When talking to Jon Krakauer, the author of Into The Wild, Gallien points out that Chris's backpack was unusually light for somebody who is trying to survive in the back country.