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Graduates From Emory
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Arrives at Lake Meade National Park
Chris abandons his car at Lake Meade National Park -
Abadons his car and sets out to hike Lake Meade
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Chris's Parents Hadn't Heard From Him Since Graduation
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Chris is ticketed for hitchhiking near Willow Creek
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Westerberg Picks Up Chris
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Chris Leaves Carthage
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Hitchhikes into Needles, California
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Reaches the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border
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Journal Entry: reaches Wellteco Canal- heads south
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Gets a tow to the ocean
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Climbs up a sandstaone bluff, sets up camp on the edge of a platteau
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Decides to abadon canoe and head north
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Gets caught by immigration
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Returns to Detrital Wash
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Arrives in Las Vegas and gets a job at an italian restaurant
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Leaves Las Vegas
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Spends July and August on the Oregon Coast
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Arrives in Bullhead City, Arizona
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Writes to Jan Burres
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Meets Ronald Franz
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Chris's 24th birthday
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Chris calls Franz to wish him happy birthday
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Mails a postcard to Jan Burres
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Leaves Carthage, bound for Alaska
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Sends a card to Burres and Franz saying he's in Seattle riding rails
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Franz offers to take Chris to Grand Junction
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Franz drops Chris off in Grand Junction, Colorado
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Works at Wayne Westerberg's grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota.
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Stops at Liard Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada, where he is stuck for two days before hitching a ride with Gaylord Stuckey in the cab of his sunflower-seed-hauling truck.
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Reads up on edible plants at the University of Alaska's Fairbanks campus. Buys a used gun and sends postcards. Leaving the campus, hikes west.
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Pitches his tent on frozen ground not far from the Stampede Trail.
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picked up by Jim Gallien, a truck-driving electrician on his way to Anchorage
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Sees Mt. McKinley
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Finds the Bus
