Christopher McCandless

Hopefully no news is good news in this case. Maybe he is living the dream. That would be my optimistic wish!

I didnt always agree with him but always appreciated his inciteful posts. Has anyone heard from or know what happened to Ascetic?

What a great question! I realized I was not the only person wanting to reject this sick society. I had read about people like Chris before but our lovely media would make them look like no intelligence doucebag nuts and I was still too naive at the time to look beyond the media report. I bought the ...

Pezar, 18 months is not that far away. I applaud you for paying the debt before you go. I am in a similar situation and it will take me longer to leave. This does not upset me because the longer it takes the more education and planning I will get done. Pezar,I was reading an old post (surviving on 1...

Goombla, I like your plan. Especially the commune stay. There should be communes everywhere. I found one in NC, I also found a "gathering" in Florida that happens once a year in a national forest. If you come near Jacksonville fl, or Asheville NC feel free to contact me and I will do what ...

Goombla, you can't explain it to them. It's like explaining why not to do drugs to a drug addict. Your father (like my father)has bought into this system that has become too corrupt to survive. People like our fathers cannot fathom that they have lost their country to greed/corruption. They want to ...

Jesusislove777> I just spent a week in the mountains and it has humbled me (again). I want to rant about the ills of society but the answer seems so simple: freedom. I only feel truly free in the mountains because we are not 'free' in society even though we think we live in a free country. We are no...

All the problems we are dealing with now have been already happened through out history, minus our "technology". The whole system is corrupt, just like all the corrupt systems in history. We are repeating history because we do not learn from it. Money is our "true" god. We all ha...

It is the 'unknown' that you are referring to that will be with you even when you get off the grid. Fear of that unknown is what is keeping most of us from doing what Chris did (or close to it). We can spend 2 years, 5 years, 10 years planning but it is taking that leap into the unknown of being off...

Goombla, I appreciate your enthusiasm and your ability to pick up and go but, unfortunately, I can't just pick up and go. I have to tie up loose ends and have a long term plan so I don't wake up one morning at my sisters house begging for help because I just picked up and left. Believe me, I want to...