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Graduated with excellent grades with a gpa of 3.72
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Chris left everyone and everything and set out on the road, he didnt tell anyone he was leaving.
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Burned his money, left his datsun, and left rice, change, and a guitar behind in his car.
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Chris drove directly west, but shortly had to abandon his car, because of a flash flood.
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Gave himself the name Alex Supertramp, never went by his real name Christopher McCandless again.
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Christopher McCandless hitches a ride from Jan Burres from Northern California to South Dakota
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Alex hitches a ride from Wayne in South Dakota where he is offered a job and takes it becuase he is in need of money.
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Alex decides to leave when his closest friend Wayne Westerburg is taken to jail.
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Alex goes to the mexico and trys to go into the gulf with his kayak but that is blocked, so he heads back to America.
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Alex gets caught by immigration and is forced to give up his hand gun, and let him back into america.
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Gets a job, to get off the raod for a bit, after many months Alex sends a postcard to Jan Burres
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He makes one last stop in Carthrage
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Alex meets an old man named franz who treats him like his own grandson.
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Alex hitches a ride to his final destination the stampede trail
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From this time he finds an old bus, and he kiils his own moose, and has survived for 6 weeks.
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Alex dies from starvation, and his body is found 16 days later
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He does well living off the land before he eats a patato root that slowely kills him