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Chris McCandless is born in El Segundo, California
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The Chris's family moves to Annandale, Virginia following Walt being hired by NASA
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Chris graduated from W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia
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Chris took his first prolonged journey after graduating from high school and went to where his father had lived before and found out that he had been living a sort of double life
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Chris graduated from Emory University in the spring of 1990 with a bachelor's degree in history and anthropology. He then donates all of his money to OXFAM and leaves on a prolonged journey
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Chris starts using the name "Alexander Supertramp"
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Chris starts journaling his travels and writes in third-person
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Chris hitches a ride from rubber tramps Jan and Bob Burres. Jan acts like a mother figure to Chris
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Chris hitches a ride from Wayne in South Dakota and is then offered a job at a grain mill in Carthage
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Chris's 1982 Datsun B210 is found in the backcountry of Lake Mead National Recreation Area
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Ronald Franz had seen Chris when he had gone into Salton City, California to get supplies after having set up camp just out of town.
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With help from Franz, Chris made an elaborate belt that had many symbols that related to his journeys prior
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Chris left Franz to continue his journey by going to San Diego
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This is the day that Chris goes into the Alaskan Taiga
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Chris, now three days in the wild, stumbles upon an abandoned bus and records "Magic Bus Day" in his journal
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Chris had attempted to leave the area past the Teklanika River but found that it was unable to be crossed due to melted snow and water
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Chris describes in his journal how he is all of a sudden feeling weak.
"EXTREMELY WEAK, FAULT OF POT. SEED. MUCH TROUBLE JUST TO STAND UP. STARVING. GREAT JEOPARDY." -
Chris dies in Fairbanks City Transit System: bus 142 in Stampede Trail, Alaska