he informes his family that he has taken to call himself Lan Rameau and request that they "please respect my brush name....."
Addressedhis parrents and his brother, they indicated that he would be incommunicado for a "month ot two" eight days after mailing them.
Bill gave birth to a son
chris bought his father a present :a very expencive Questar telescope
The morrning mccandless left to go on his adventure
He begins "a very fateful day." After travling some distance south, he beaches the canoe on a sandbar far from shore to observe the powerful tides.
He left a stubby meatal boat on a hummock of dune grass southeast of EL Golfo de Santa Clara and started walking north up the deserted beach.
Chris went to Los Angeles
Had an conffeshion with franz that he was having trouble finding work.
He returned to Detrital Wash
He mailed a poastcard to Jan Burres. "Hello!" it reads
He wrote Burres another letter.
Fraz offered to take Chris to Grand Junction, Colorado
Franz left McCandless on the shoulder of Interstate 70 outside Grand Junction and returned to California.
Crown fell off one of his mowlers
5 Squirrel
Porcupine, Ptarmigan, 4 squarrel, gray bird.
Another Porcupine. 4 squirrel, 2 gray bird.
a Third porcupine!!, squrriel, gray bird, ash bird.
shot a canada goose as big as a christmas tree
Bagged the biggest of them all a MOOSE!!!!!
Removed half of a rib cage and stakes can only work nights "start smoking"
Get remainder of ribcage , shoulder and neck to cave. "start smokeing"
"maggots already!" smoking apperas inneffective. dont know, looks like disaster. now i witsh i never shot the moose. one of the biggest tragedies of my life."
starts a backpacking journey.
McCandless is thrilled to hear from Jan! "I am so glad to find you both alive and sound." He exclamed in a letter.
Chris departed Carthage, south dakota
He arrived in white fish this morrning on a freight train.
After pausing on the bus for four das at the bus , he returned his perambulataion.
"Gourmet Duck!"
However the Taklanika was full flood, swollen with rain and snowmelt from glaciers high n the alaska range
He went on a hike around lake mead.
Shortly be for meeting Jan Burres and Bob McCandless Chris had been ticketed for hitchhicking near willow creak.
Carine was giving a rottweiler a bath as Chris pulled in the drive way
He records in his journal that be thinks he has found Wellteco Canal and heads south>
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Small but dangerous waterfalls litter the canal.
All hopes callapse!! The canal reaches a swamp not the ocean which he wants to get to.
Resumes quest for the opening to the sea.
Chris reaches the mexican boarder
He reached the Morelos Dam
Weary of paddling, he haulted the canoe far up the beac, climed a sandstone bluff, and sets up camp on the edgeof a desolated plateau.
This writer recived an unushual letter, penned in a shackey, anachronistic script that seggested an elderly author. "to whom it my concern," the letter begins.
