Christopher McCandless

While we're on the topic of hitch-hiking. . . I did my share of hitching "back in the day"--back and forth across the US several times, plus lots of regional and local trips. . . and yup, made some bad choices and had some bad things happen to me (but no, I never got drunk with my ride and...

Interesting about "stone age societies". We had in Canada Inuit people who lived traditionally (stone age)until the mid 1960s when all were finally resettled into "modern communities". . . . So is man a wilderness creature; we too strove and survived against the ice and the weat...

There are some good suggestions in the discussions "How to travel like Chris did" and "Making money on the road."

lauriejennifer wrote:Kind of ironic that this turned into a bit of a cat fight...

You can add me to the list of women here. First-time posting, too. *friendly wave*

Welcome, lauriejennifer!!!

Chipette, welcome to the site. Did you find us through a simple Internet search after watching the film? You will find like-minded friends here and some interesting discussions, as you have already seen. Many here have read the Jon Krakauer book the film was loosely based upon and recommend those wh...

It would be interesting to know if there is a difference in the % of men or women that prefer an alternative lifestyle, alternative to the mainstream commercial lifestyle. Now that, I think, is an interesting question to pose. Of course, we have to start with the definition of "alternative lif...

awesome man yeah is hitchhiking as dangerous as people make it out to be?? and is it the only way to travel cheaply? how'd you make money on the road?? JAHBLESS:) Everything we do is measured risk. . . is riding in a car risky? flying in an airplane? shooting drugs? "unsafe" sex? Smoking ...

Stilltrekker, eating the wrong mushroom can be DEADLY! The Asian communities here in California like to go mushroom hunting like they did in their home countries. There are constantly reports of SE Asians needing liver transplants because they mistook a deadly shroom for one that grows in their hom...

Well, I was intending to stay gender-neutral on this site, but this chat is just too juicy to refrain from. You go, GONORTH girl!--and I'll admit I hadn't guessed your gender from reading your earlier posts. Had my fellow forum readers guessed mine? Perhaps not, since I haven't espoused a passion fo...

Good question. . . for me, many answers. Serious hiking I've only done in a group with experienced guides (and we still managed to go three days up the wrong fork of a river!). Hitch-hiking was always alone or with a dog (which helped more than it hurt getting rides) but I had some regrettable exper...