Christopher McCandless

Here's the lyrics of the song those words refer to:

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/miller-roger/king-of-the-road-1164.html

In the movie they also play this song a bit later. I think I read somewhere that Chris actually liked this song.

I guess this is some kind of misinformation. What you can see in Healy is actually the movie bus (that had been standing around somewhere in or near Cantwell all the time after the movie had been finished). About 2 years ago they moved this movie bus to the 49th state brewery in Healy in order to (t...

bones wrote: It shows the area that Chris went down,

Do you mean the area Chris went down with his canoe (without rapids) or the part shown in the movie, that Emile Hirsch did with the kayak?

Thank you for the article. It's really an interesting theory, and who knows, maybe it contains some truth for Chris's case. However I don't understand why the author seems to be so certain that CM did actually have lathyrism. I rather agree with Anewanddifferentsun: many facts indicate that CM could...

According to Jim Gallien on the Back to the Wild special on Animal Planet, Chris asked him if he knew where the Stampede Trail is, that Chris had heard or read about it sometime earlier. This is also what Krakauer wrote in his book: A little later Alex pulled out his crude map and pointed to a dash...

airyk wrote: I do one year of work then 1 year of vagabond exploration. My career is going well

Sounds good. Can you tell us more about the kind of work you do?

3. Do problems grow smaller the farther away you are from them? I think it depends on the kind of problem. If the problem is something outside of you, some kind of bad environment, like people treating you bad or something you're allergic to etc., it's generally wiser to get away from it. If the pr...

Starvation. I think that has been clearly proven.

I just checked and it should be "The wolf" by Eddie Vedder and actually on the CD (number 9).

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/fairbanks-band-shoots-music-video-infamous-mccandless-bus

If you have a closer look, you can see that it's not even the real bus, but the movie bus in Healy.