Chris McCandless Journey by Aidan Wicker

By wickerag
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    Chris McCandless stops and thoughts

  • Chris give all his savings away to OXFAM charity dedicated to fighting hunger.

  • Arrives at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada.

  • After a flash flood Chris leaves his loved yellow Datsun behind. He continues into the bush on foot.

    This is one turning point in Chris's life. After the flood most of the things he packed for his trip was runied and the road was washed out. He took off on foot with out half his gear. He was hiking around but because of the hot July temperatures he suffered from extreme heat stroke.

  • Soon after hitch hiking in Willow Creek, California, Chris recieves a ticket in the mail for hitching. His parents become extremely worried about him.

  • He reaches the Colorado River where he continues South through the desert, arriving in Topock, Arizona.He buys a second-hand canoe

  • Chris after traveling through the Colorado river for almost a month reaches the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border

  • Chris goes to Morelos Dam

  • Chris realizes that he can't reach the Gulf of California by canoe.He meets a couple of duck hunters that ofter to give him a ride.

  • Pulls the canoe out of the water.He decides it isn't safe.

  • He discovers a cave where he hides out from a severe weaher. He sents up camp for 10 days.

    Christmas!! what a way to spend the holiday!

  • He decides to leave his canoe in the El Golfo de Santa Clara.

  • Chris tries to sneak back into the United States over the Mexican boarder, although he is caught and he spends a night in jail after US imagration catches him. He talks himself out troube after proving proof that he's a US citizen.

  • Goes to Los Angeles for an id and a job but then decide to travel again because he was afraid

  • Chris decides to camps at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a young couple

  • Chris decides to bury his back pack in the ground and hitch hikes to Las Vegas

    My Birthday!

  • A long time goes by until Chris almost drowns to death in his canoe after a bad wind storm.

    This gives Chris a sense of reason if he could barely survive a minor storm, What was Alaska going to be like?

  • Chris heads back into town after the near death incident

  • Chris meets Wayne Westerberg. They become close firends. Wayne giving him and place to stay and work

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    Chris arrives in Bullhead City, Arizona, where he worked for two months at McDonald's and lived in an empty RV in a field beside a man named Charlie.The owners of the land had no idea Chris was living on their land.

  • Visits Jan and Bob at there campsite where he again stays for a while.

  • Chris sends postcards to Burres in Seattle

  • Leaves Carthage, bound for Alaska.

  • Chris stops at Liard Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada

  • Chris buys and hand gun and starts his journey in Alaska.

  • Hitch hking Chris gets picked up from Jim Gillien. Gillien drives him to Stampede Trail.

  • repares his backpack and sets out on the 20-mile hike back to the road.

  • Gets turned around on his hike and returns back to the bus.

  • Arrives back at the bus

  • Writes in his journal that he isnt doing well! "EXTREMELY WEAK, FAULT OF POT. SEED. MUCH TROUBLE JUST TO STAND UP. STARVING. GREAT JEOPARDY."

  • Chris J. McCandless dies of stavation while sleeping in the blue sleeping bag his mom made him as a boy in the bus along the Sushana River in Alaska.