Christopher McCandless

Hi everyone, this is a thread to invite people to share with me the titles of books that reflect the beauty and value of the solitary life, the peaceful, reflective energetic life that Chris would have been inspired by. The obvious one that I know of is Walden by Henry David Thoreau. And Call of the...

I watched the movie last night for the first time. I was born in the same year as Chris, and in 1991 I gave away my things and went to Thailand to be a Buddhist monk, with no plans on returning. Getting away from my family (many parallels to Chris’s family it would seem) is a complicated thread of m...