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He began his journey
June: After he graduates from Emory University he leaves Atlanta in his Datsun. -
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Chris McCandless
The begin to the end of his journey -
Met crazy ernie
Gets picked up by Crazy “Ernie” on the side of the highway. After he gets picked up he works for Ernie on his ranch in northern California. -
Meet the Buresses
Chris got ticketed for hicthhiking and then met Burress. -
Colorado River
Chris starts his boating trip down the Colorado River from Topack, Arizona. -
Storm in Mexico
Chris got trapped in a big storm in Mexico. So he had to stay a few days. -
U.S, Mexico Border trouble
After the storm Uhris is trying to get back in the U.S. But unfortanly he crossed the border illegaly and end up going to jail. -
Los Angeles
Chris deciied to hike to Los Angles to obtain an I.D. After he got his I.D his new legal name was Alex -
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Las Vegas
Christ get a job in Las Vegas and leave after a few month -
Oregon Trail
Chris settles on the coast for July and August. -
Bullhead City
Chris leaves Oregan and heads to Bull city, Arizona. While he is in Bullhead city chris gets a job at Mcdonalds. He opens up a savings account. In one of the letters he said he might finally settle down. -
Salton City
Chris meets a guy call Ronald Franz. His Mcdonalds boss sends Chris his final paycheck to the post office. -
Coachella
Chris call Franz and ask him if he can be picked up -
Grand Junction, Colorado
After Franz picks Chris up he drops him off in Grand Junction, Colorado. -
South Dakota
chris is back in SD working for Wanye Westburg -
Stampede Trail
He bagan to journey to the stampede trail -
Fairbank
Started reading a book called "Family Hapiness" -
Christ die
Chris died presumingly from eating toxic potato seeds. -
Christ body found
There is no indication whatsoever that he ate anything poisonous. The wild potato seeds branded as toxic in the book turned out not to be poisonous at all. The book was published before the full lab analysis was completed. Researsh show that he did not mistake the potatoes for wild sweet peas and knew what he was eating
