Christopher McCandless

with a simple google search of TCD I found this website http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/TCD

it lists a lot of words that begin with T C and D and the one that makes the most sense to me is "Teller Cash Dispenser" since he worked at a casino he was probably dealing with money and dispensed cash to people and that was his job title

Now here is a Picture of the buckle end of the belt http://yfrog.com/h4o2cmj

I grabbed my book and thumbed to the part where Krakauer describes whats on the belt and he says everything on the belt in order and on the belt chris wrote VEGAS in the picture you can see the end of it GAS and directly after VEGAS comes TCD and on the belt there are no . separating the letters. So either its the name of the casino or his job title "Teller Cash Dispenser"

Wow lots of info but I feel really accomplished letting everyone know this.

Thanks a lot for the belt-picture. Ok, so Krakauer didn't write it correctly in the book.
However it could still be initials of a person and these won't be found in the acronyms list.

But there are also some funny things in the list. I prefer:
Target Completion Date
Tons of Cane per Day
Tentative Classification of Defects

SteveSalmon wrote:One little piece of the puzzle that has never really been brought to light is the time that Chris worked at the casino in Vegas. It is sometimes quietly mentioned and quickly forgotten. If you have access to his collection of pics and ID's you will see he that he had to get licensed as a food worker.
The Casino Days?
Although I have to say that "Tried Calling Dad" is quite amusing. lol Good stuff MadMax.

Steve-
How do you know about all of this? I don't recall seeing this anywhere before. Do you have access to his pics and ID's or something?

Krakauer mentions a job at an italian restaurant in Las Vegas, Chip Brown a casino.

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SteveSalmon wrote: What page was that anyway?

Check out yourself by searching for "Vegas" here: http://www.99chan.in/lit/src/Into_The_Wild-_John_Krakauer.pdf (or here for the casino version: http://www.chipbrown.net/articles/intowild.htm)

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Hello everybody..... I haven't read the book yet.....but I did read somewhere that a girl named tracey had a crush on Chris maybe this t.c.d. is her initials??? Just a thought...in the movie tracey is at the slabs....but in the article I found on the internet it said a girl named tracey in bullshead Colorado had a "crush" on Chris....

Hello everybody..... I haven't read the book yet.....but I did read somewhere that a girl named tracey had a crush on Chris maybe this t.c.d. is her initials??? Just a thought...in the movie tracey is at the slabs....but in the article I found on the internet it said a girl named tracey in bullshead Colorado had a "crush" on Chris....