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Chris McCandless graduates from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Chris McCandless is forced to abandon his car alongside Lake Mead and continues on foot.
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Chris is picked up by Jan Burres and Bob near Willow Creek.
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Chris paddles his canoe through the floodgates, sneaking into Mexico.
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Chris leaves his canoe on the dune grass and continues his journey on foot northward.
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Chris McCandless returns to Detrital Wash to reclaim some items that he burried near the lake.
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Chris leaves Las Vegas after working there for a few weeks. He stops keeping his journal until he arrives in Alaska
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Chris is picked up by Ronald Franz and taken back to his camp.
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Ronald Franz leaves Chris alongside Interstate 70 near Grand Junction. Chris continues north.
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Jim Gallien gives Chris a ride into the Alaskan wilderness along the Stampede Trail. At this point Chris calls himself Alexander Supertramp.