Christopher McCandless

http://lancastria.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/chris-mccandless_mother_lancastria.jpg This picture is one of the most touching I have ever seen. It conveys for me all that I can understand about a mothers loss of a son. It brings a tear to my eye every time I see it. She is obviously looking...

"One reason there are more male members of this forum is because as males we identify with Chris at the personal level, we see ourselves in him, we intuitively understand his inner frustration with the world. More women I think feel a maternal instinct to want to rescue him and set him back on...

One reason there are more male members of this forum is because as males we identify with Chris at the personal level, we see ourselves in him, we intuitively understand his inner frustration with the world. More women I think feel a maternal instinct to want to rescue him and set him back on track ...

This is just my 2 cents worth on this subject. There is a big difference between surviving and living healthy. We can survive for periods of time on less than the needed amount of nutrition, but we are slowly starving while doing it. If we do it long enough or often enough we can suffer serious heal...

I generally saved up a little nest egg before setting out and lived off that till the need to work was getting important. At 21 I spent the entire summer traveling with my wife and living in an old Econoline van. We budgeted a certain amount for food and fuel each week and had enough cash to last 10...

pezar wrote:You're right of course, I've been spending too much time over at the survivalist forum again...

There were some people at my door the other day who would agree with you. They had a little publication with a story about Armageddon in it. I think it was called All Along the Watchtower or something like that. I politely told them I wasn't interested in that topic and asked them not to come back. ...

ellisd wrote:

GoNorth wrote:An article about the poisonous plant-theory:

http://foragersharvest.com/into-the-wild-and-other-poisonous-plant-fables/

now that was interesting! thanks for sharing.

Yes, a very good article, some excellent points made.

Life can be hard. It can be hard on all of us and it can seem to get harder the farther along the path we go. No one ever said it was going to be easy, but this is what we have. We have life, we have today, we can do something with it or throw it away. I have found this verse puts it in perspective ...

One of these days someone will check in on the forum and know the answer.
Patience is needed in the meantime.