His journal

[iggypoprhcp]

What website can we read it at? Or has his family not allowed anyone to see it? Also, is there anymore pictures of him around? I know about that Photobucket group that has many but are there more?

[Tacdriver]

i been also looking to see if it is posted anywhere or if the family may not have ever released it, but i havent found anything as of yet unfortunately i would love to read his journal

[ACEX2]

Do you guys think it might still be in the bus. I know a lot of his personal belongings are still in the bus.

[iggypoprhcp]

Do you guys think it might still be in the bus. I know a lot of his personal belongings are still in the bus.

I doubt they would leave something like that on the bus. Someone would steal it.

[Magic Bus Girl]

I read somewhere, that his Sister picked up this, his wallet & camera from authorities shortly after his body was found...

[Kindred spirits]

His 'journal' was incoherent and he only began writing random disconnected things when he began to realise that the adventure was becoming all too real and turned into hunger and desperation. Chris wasn't a writer. The SOS sign and message in the bus window was conveniently left out of the movie by Sean Penn. Sean took a lot of 'artistic license' in the movie and was somewhat exploitative in a sense of Chris' life. He was making a film and commenting on youthful exuberance and society, he was not making a film about the real Chris in any way. The two should not be confused.

[tammy20]

I believe that he did not bring any paper with him to Alaska so he really never kept a journal with him. He would write in the margins of books or what he already wrote. Although i could be wrong. I know for his travels before Alaska he kept a journal

[JDM_WB.7]

I believe Chris wrote in his journal to keep sane. If you were all alone in the wild, you would need something to keep you occupied too. Just from how long he survived, you can see that he didn't clearly think out his descision to leave everything behind and just up and walk away. He needed something to recolect on if he were to survive. I know if I did something that bold, I would want to remember every second of it. So maybe he used his journal as a survival tool. It was something to keep him going while spending all that time in Alaska. It gave him hope durring dark times so that he might be able to push on so he can share his remarkable "adventures" with the world. He could write in it and show people the writing so that his audiance might see the true meaning of life and why he did what he did. His writings might show people that just because you leave everything and "start new," as chris did, that you can still think clearly and rationally. It would show that you can breakoff from society and learn to adapt and relize that nothing matters but your dreams and will. I believe thats why Alexander Supertramp kept a journal...

[GoNorth]

Well, he wrote a lot in his journal during his 2 years trip through the US, but during the months in the Alaskan wilderness he didn't really keep a journal (he had left his old journal with Wayne), but only wrote down some very short notes per day, often not even full sentences.
Anyway, I don't think there is anything special about keeping a travel journal; a lot of people do so, me as well.

[JDM_WB.7]

NL

Hello,
I feel that chris wrote in his journal to show many things. He wanted to show how you can live without the finer things in life. If nobody was around you for miles you would need something to do to keep you from going crazy. When he was bored he would write even when he wasnt he would still write. His journal was almost like a phone for texting. If you i would do something like this and knew i was going to die i would want everyone to know every little thing i did as well. By him writting all of those thing they were able to make a book and a movie as well of his whole adventure.