Christopher McCandless

Agreed. You know, in European countries, like France for instance, college is paid for by tax dollars. People leave with their undergraduate degrees, and have absolutely zero debt. I suppose it boils down to what kind of people we want to be in the United States. We believe that people have the righ...

The bankers didn't own him. Here! Here! They don't own me either. I spent $60,000 on a single year and a half in graduate school. I graduated with a 3.91 GPA. After taxes, I made about a dollar above minimum wage. If I only made the minimum payments, then I wouldn't pay the loan off until I'm 70 ye...

I think most of us realize that material things don't make a person happy. Ultimately, no. Though, material things, if used as means to various ends, can bring a finite degree of fulfillment in life. The problem with our consumerist society is that it mistakenly believes that material things can pr...

The Alaska locals are royally pissed about the whole bus tourism thing, in their view Chris was just another moron who wandered into the taiga hoping to challenge nature or something and wildly misjudged nature. Nothing to see here, they say. Most people who went into the taiga had craploads of sup...

I'm planning an extended trip out west - maybe indefinitely - the second week of June. I want to do some backcountry camping in Montana, and then I plan to hit the Pacific Crest Trail. Anyone want to join me?