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I enjoy the outdoors, as I've said I like to hike. Traveling the world is one of my passions. But first I have to finish the United States. My first venture would probably be Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park was always an interest to me. Maybe next could be Yosemite. Alaska seems cool, traveling the Stampede Trail could be a goal. I have never been on a plane so it would be nice to get on a plane one day. This year there is a big chance my family are going to take a plane to San Francisco.

Motorbikes are also something I want to do later this year. Getting my first job can also be a milestone. I have enjoyed this year of Westminster high school, I met a lot of people and had many laughs.

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I enjoyed reading the book on some accounts but I believe the extra parts Krakauer added weren't necessary. Chris is an extremely complex character. I'm not sure he and I would get along on some accounts. He was not emotionally there, so serious topics are out the window. I also don't like over-confident people who can be arrogant. I felt like he didn't actively listen to what anyone told him, and I believe that is not a good trait to have. This man also just left his sister, which is not a good thing either. He chose his views of the world over his family.

I admire the courage he took to leave his family and disappear. Personally, I would not be able to do that for more than a week at most. It would be nice if he was alive, for him to speak on why he chose to leave.

#couragethecowardlydog #arrogance #intothewild

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Summary: Ten months after Chris's death, Jon Krakauer goes with the parents of Chris, Walt and Billie to the bus to visit their son's place of death.  They wanted to come by traveling the Stampede Trail like Chris, but plans change and they take a helicopter out instead. For three hours, the parents retrace their son's steps, visiting the Sushana River where he went for water, winding through the flowers and brush that surround the bus.  After working up the courage, the two enter the bus (p. 201) and see some Chris' possessions that are still there and find his messages scrawled on the wall.  They put a memorial (p. 202) plaque and leave behind a suitcase full of first aid and survival supplies (p. 202) to help anyone else who seeks shelter in the bus.  This visit (p. 201) brings closure for Walt and Billie. The book ends with the parents flying away from the bus that grows smaller (p. 203) in the distance.

Analysis: I feel really bad for the parents of Chris. I'm sure the journey to Alaska was heart wrenching for them. I think that they didn't cry because they were numb to his death. Jon should have brought Carine instead of his parents.

#helicopter #raggedjeans #billieandwalt

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Summary: Chris arrives back at the bus on July 8th, after he couldn't cross the river.  He figures that he'll just wait until the river subsides.  He returns to his usual existence of hunting, gathering, and reading.  While reading Doctor Zhivago, Chris underlines several passages that all relate to note he wrote in the margin:  "HAPPINESS IS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED." With this, we are shown that Chris wants to rejoin society and share his life with others.  On July 30th, he writes an entry in his journal that explains he is in bad shape:  he's weak, starving and in great jeopardy (p. 189).   There are three possible explanations for his decline that involved poisoning (p. 191):  1. he grew so hungry that he ate seeds he brought with him from South Dakota that had grown mold and became poisonous 2. he ate poisoned potato seeds and 3. he confused his plants and ate sweet pea which is filled with toxins (p. 193). Choice #3 makes the most sense  because he is so emaciated (p. 199) already, his body doesn't have enough fat or energy to fight off the toxic side effect of eating the sweet pea plant.  He becomes incapacitated and can no longer hunt or gather as much as he needs to in order to gain the necessary weight and energy to fight off the sweet peas' toxicity.  Starvation (p. 198) begins to set in which is an extremely painful way to die. This is when Chris posts the SOS note on the bus during the times he attempts to hunt and gather.  And after a few weeks of difficult physical decline, Chris realizes that the end is near so he takes one last picture holding a card with this message on it:  "I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD.  GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL" (p. 199) Chris most likely passed away on August 19, 1992, 112 days after beginning his journey and only 19 days before the six people converge at the bus in early September.

Analysis: What I don't understand is why did he not eat the bullet. Personally, I would go down that route than to starve. If only Chris took a map, all of this could have been avoided. I wonder that if he made it out, would his story ever be made public?

#ripsupertramp #potato #starvation

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Summary: Jon Krakauer and three friends, Roman Dial, Dan Solie and Andrew Liske, follow his footsteps down the Stampede Trail to the bus. Unlike Chris, these four have a map (p. 173)! They immediately find a cable car about 20 minutes away from where Chris tried to cross the river (p. 173) that he could've used to fly over the river with ease. Then the four find their way along the trail, seeing for themselves just how difficult it was to work their way through the bush to find the bus. In retracing his path, the men confirm that Chris, in fact, shot a moose and not a caribou as many Alaskans believed. When they arrive at the bus, the men search its interior where they find many of Chris' possessions: his jeans, a homemade belt he made when he got too skinny for those jeans, his nail clippers, his hiking boots. They spend the night camping outside of the bus, as no one wants to sleep in it since Chris' death creates an eerie cloud of sadness in there. Talking around the fire about Chris, they analyze his need to take this spiritual quest (p. 184) and break down the boss moves he made as well as the gigantic mistakes (p. 185) that ultimately led to his demise. The men all agree that they see themselves in Chris and they respect (p. 181) his need for adventure.

Analysis: All of this could have been avoided if Chris could have taken a map. I imagine it must have felt weird to see all of Chris' possessions knowing he was gone. I would feel really uncomfortable too with seeing everything he had neatly placed and untouched. Personally, I would not have gone to see the bus, because emotions would come over me. But in the future I would like to traverse the Stampede Trail, to truly feel how it was for Chris.

#ghostbusters #rippedjeans #moosenotcaribou

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Summary: After Jon's stories we dive back into Chris' story. McCandless leaves Carthage for the final time. He hitchhikes through Canada by using freight(pg 163) trains. At a rest stop/campground(pg 158), Chris meets Stuckey who is delivering an RV to Fairbanks. Stuckey agrees to take him only five-hundred miles before Fairbanks, but after getting to know Chris more he decides to take him fully to Fairbanks. McCandless spends his time at the University bookstore (pg 160) researching plants to eat. Then Jim Gallien finds him and takes him to the beginning of the stampede trail. In Chris' journal in the wild, he outlines his successes and losses. He once shot a moose(pg. 166), but then the meat went to waste. Chris didn't seem to take that lightly. He decides to head back to civilization on July 3rd because he's realizing that happiness must be shared. The river has melted where he crossed to get into the bush. Instead of a calm stream, it's a raging river, Chris goes back to the bus(pg. 163)to wait out the river.

Analysis: It's sad to know what ultimately happened to him. He wanted to get out and head back to civilization. If the weather had been a bit better or if people found him, he would make it out alive. Chris should have taken the map also, but I guess he wanted to really experience the wild.

#deadmoose  #smoked   #ragingwaters

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Summary: So Krakauer makes it back to his tent, all butt hurt that he didn't achieve his goal of summiting Devil's Thumb.  In a genius move, he decided to smoke a joint to make himself feel better since he's a bit depressed.  Well, he ends up setting his tent on fire causing it to vaporize one of the walls so the temperature inside drops by 30 degrees or so.  Good job, Jon!  Anyway, this causes him to think about his reason for running away to climb:  his volatile (p. 147) history with his father!  They have a very similar relationship to Walt and Chris - dad is stubborn, treats his son poorly, pushes him away with his medical school expectations (p. 148) since he himself is a doctor.  Yeah, I know: we've heard this story before.  Jon uses these complicated (p. 147) family memories as motivation:  he's going to attempt to summit the Thumb to prove his disbelieving dad wrong!  He fixes his tent by packing it with snow and forges a plan to begin his final ascent on a slightly "easier" side of the mountain, the southeast side.  At sunrise, he summons ALL of his courage and overcoming all of the terrifying (p. 150) obstacles, he finally makes it to the top - YAY!  He enjoys the view for a minutes, snaps a few pics, and begins his descent.  When he finally makes it off the mountain, he tells a few people what he did.  They aren't extremely impressed.  This makes Jon think about what he did and why he did it, causing him to say, "I thought climbing Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life.  In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing.  But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale" (p. 155). Years later when writing this book, he realizes that his hubris (p.155) pushed him to his limits to achieve his goal, but that the impact his possible death had on those who loved him would've been catastrophic.  This is why he believes that Chris had NO intention to die in the wild, that he was only chasing his young, irresponsible dream.

Analysis: Obviously, this man made a bad decision, and almost killed himself. I'm happy that he made it to the summit. But I wonder if it truly made Jon feel any better about himself. If Chris had survived there probably wouldn't be a story to tell. Chris did not have any intention to die Jon believes, and I believe that too.

#420 #riptent #hedidit

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Summary: To answer Billie McCandless' question at the end of Chapter 13 about why anyone would do what Chris did, Jon Krakauer flips the script and tells his own story of Alaska adventure.  At the age of 23, Krakauer decides to head to the great north to find himself not by living in the wild, but by climbing the major mountains in the 49th state.  He becomes obsessed with hiking Devil's Thumb, a very steep, challenging ascent on the glacier (p. 138) known as the Stikine Ice Cap.  Like Chris, completing this climb becomes the only important thing in Krakauer's life.  Chris obsessed over the bush, while Jon's obsession (p. 134) is this rare climbing achievement.  Much like he anticipated, the ascent is dangerous and potentially deadly.  Krakauer proceeds with caution during whiteout snow storms while crossing over delicate crevasses (p. 140) which could crack and send him tumbling down hundreds of feet.  On a beautiful May day, Krakauer decides that this is it, he must summon the courage and concentration (p. 142) he needs to summit this peak today or else...Even with the warm temps and sunny day, the ice is impenetrable and Krakauer panics (p. 143).  He can see the summit, but he can't reach it.  His only option is down.

Analysis: This relates to Chris' story a little bit. Much like Chris, Jon had an obsession with nature. But Jon's obsession was to climb the devils thumb. I'm sure during the climb he felt fear and anguish a lot of the times. I know I would be scared too. It takes a lot of courage to accept defeat and I admire that he chose his own life over the summit.

#failureisanoption #summerweather #delicacy

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Summary: The narrator goes to Carine McCandless' home(pg 127) where he interviews her about the disappearance and death of her brother. She describes the similarities they had and also the differences that were between them. Carine also houses the family dog(pg 128) Buckley, whom Chris loved dearly. She then relives the moment she found out Chris was dead. They went to Fairbanks to bring back the ashes(pg 131) after officials in Alaska cremated(pg 131) him. There she was given a number of Chris' belongings. After his death, she lost 10 pounds for losing her appetite(pg 132), while her father gained pounds. At the end of the chapter, she still does not understand why Chris McCandless left.

Analysis: I couldn't imagine losing a loved one, let alone my brother. The pain she must felt must have been unbearable and she still has to live with it today. This definitely has been the chapter that hit me the most.

#ashes #heartbreak #pain

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Summary: The story reverts back to before Chris decided to go off into the wild. After his high school graduation(pg 117), he decides to take a trip through the American West. While on his trip, he sometimes contacts his family, and when he came back he had a full beard and lost a lot of weight(pg 118). The next week he starts classes at Emory University. As always he outperforms himself academically. But then he went into a downhill spiral causing himself to be more isolated.  During his trip, he discovered that his father had maintained a relationship with his first wife and his other children, heading two households. He had a son(pg 121)
with his first wife after McCandless was born(pg 121)before Walt and Billie moved to the east coast(pg 121). Jon explains that this resentment for his father may have caused him to leave his family and disappear.

Analysis: I kind of wish that Chris could have talked about the problems he had with his family. Most of this could have been avoided if he just communicated.

#harvard #lawyer #hittingtheroad.

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Summary: The author talks with Samuel "Walt" McCandless the father of Chris McCandless, about his admiration and frustrations about his son. Krakauer reveals Walt's past. After college, he went to work in jet propulsion after the release of Sputnik. After having his kids, the family fell apart soon after and Walt left them. He soon met Billie, a secretary (pg 106) at a place where Walt worked. They became married and had two kids who were Chris and Carine. Out the gate, Chris' parents knew he was odd. Fights in spite of anger(pg 107) broke out between the parents and that caused the two siblings to comfort each other. They worked from home(pg 107) and apparently never stopped working. Chris's love(pg 108) for the outdoors happened when the family went camping. Christopher's grandfather may have been another catalyst. Both children were academically successful, Carine also explained that Chris was very protective(pg 110) of her. During high school was captain of the track team, and enjoyed running. Many of his acquaintances said he expressed a dislike for his parents. The McCandless family lived comfortably, with Walt and Billie's business proving successful. Chris was a successful manager for a construction firm. With that money, he purchases the Datsun. At the beginning of college, his parents offer to buy him a new car. Chris refuses and donates all of his college fund money to charity.

Analysis: Chris seemed to have an okay childhood. I wonder if there are missing pieces to the story. There must have been something else that triggered Chris to leave his family. I also wonder if Chris was ever happy with his family. Did he leave his family because it was an escape or was it because of the beauty of the world?

#suburbs  #grandparocks #trackstar

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Summary: Before the story of McCandless' death appeared on the New York Times, Jim Gallien had seen a headline from the Anchorage Daily News. He was the one who gave Chris the final ride(pg 99) into Alaska. At first the police didn't believe him when Jim called. Then he began to describe the clothes Chris was wearing(the boots(pg 99) he had on him). That information was not in the newspaper. Jim told the police that Chris stated he was from South Dakota. Thus began the police search(pg 99). Wayne knew nothing about Chris' death until a friend of his told him to turn on the radio(pg 100) and listen to the details about a hiker(pg 100) who died in Alaska. Wayne called the police and eventually gave Chris' full name and social security. With that information, a homicide detective reaches Sam McCandless(his older half-brother) and reveals his death. Sam must now tell his parents that he died.

Analysis: It always interested me on how many cases were solved without the internet. The detectives used phonebooks to contact and find people. I wonder how quick it would be to solve this case with today's technology.

#ripchris #nocellphone #irisfucyu

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Summary: Another chapter about a dude who isn't Chris McCandless.  Everett Ruess shares many similarities with our main character though - he's a wanderer (p. 90), free spirit, well-liked risk taker, and lover of all things solitude and wilderness.  Everett is a bit younger than Chris when he begins his vagabond (p. 91) journey, dropping out of UCLA after only one semester to follow his dream (p. 96) of living a nomadic existence.  Unlike Chris, Everett focuses his travels in the southwest rather than north, but like Chris, he also renames himself choosing the moniker Nemo after the character Captain Nemo in the Jules Verne classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. And yes, Nemo the fish we know today is named after that character, too!  While on a solo expedition in Utah, Ruess seemingly disappears, never to be heard from again.  A search party is sent to find him after he goes incommunicado (p. 93), but other than finding his donkey, some cave drawings/graffiti he made, and pieces of his gear, Ruess was never seen again.  Stories vary on what happened to him - maybe he was a victim of his own reckless innocence (p, 97) and fell while hiking or possibly drown, but some speculate that he was murdered by Native Americans.  No one ever found him or his remains, so Everett's end remains a mystery.  Like Chris, Everett's passion for nature and adventure won out over a conventional life, yet neither man made it out of the wild...

Analysis: This seems like a continuation of the chapter before. Everett Reuss's remains were found in 1934 near the Utah River. This story is more heartfelt because it didn't seem that he had any family problems. He just followed his heart, and he was much younger than Chris. In the days before his death he lived hidden among Native Americans on a reservation.

#depressed #trailblazer #poem

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Summary: Jon Krakauer uses this chapter to show his readers that other men have come to their demise (p. 70) on Alaskan adventures, even if the circumstances are a bit different from those of Chris McCandless.  First up is Gene Rossellini, the modern day caveman!  Gene heads north from the lower 48 in the early 1970's.  He's a super intelligent guy looking to test himself in Alaska ...sound like anyone we know??  Well, "the mayor of Hippie Cove" as Gene is called lives a prehistoric existence, testing himself to see if modern day man can live in the same way as the cavemen did it back in the day. Gene tries his hardest, but sadly writes, "I learned that it is not possible for human beings as we know to live off the land" (p. 75) before plunging a knife through his heart when he realizes the true extent of his failure (p. 75).  Next up is crazy John Waterman.  Lots of similarities to Chris:  he's from the D.C. area, has MAJOR issues with his dad and is super smart.  John is an accomplish climber and alpinist (p. 79) before he starts losing his marbles, running for president of the United States on a platform to end hunger.  SPOILER ALERT:  He doesn't win the election!  Anywho, John comes unhinged, decides to climb the most difficult mountain in all of Alaska in the dead of winter and is never heard from again.  Alaska state troopers believe he probably fell down a crevasse (p. 80) to his death, although his remains were never found.  And last up is poor Carl McCunn.  Another transplant from the lower 48, Carl is the life of the party - just like Chris.  Good guy, fun to be around, charming, but lacks common sense & thinks someone will bail him out if he ends up in trouble.  Similar to Chris, he hatches a plan to go off into the wild for a few months BUT he fails to set up an Uber (think Uber plane!) to come back and pick him up.  The summer turns to fall and McCunn is starving and freezing.  But wait...a plane flies overhead and it looks like Carl is going to be rescued!!!  Unfortunately, Carl doesn't know that waving ONE hand in the air means you're good, no need to rescue you instead of throwing TWO hands in the air, the universal sign for HELP!!!  Carl is dying a slow and painful death by a mix of starvation and frostbite, so in his final diary (p. 81) he explains that he shot himself in the head to end his misery.  Guess Chris doesn't sound that crazy or unprepared after all, huh???

Analysis: Krakauer wrote this chapter to explain Chris' sanity. Chris is not the first person to venture off into the great wilderness of the Alaskan Tundra. Other people were mentally unstable, so that shines Chris in a better light than the other men. Although there are similarities between the men by having family problems and wanting to escape them.

#literallyabrokenheart #sanityquestioned #alaskawins

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Summary: The author Jon Krakauer travels to Carthage, South Dakota to speak with Wayne Westerberg about the last period of work Chris McCandless did. He worked from March until April to put together a grubstake(pg62). Borah(Wayne's girlfriend) had gotten close to Chris and much was revealed. The relationship between Chris and his father was severed. Both individuals were stubborn(pg 65), and their opinions constantly clashed. Chris told his sister(Carine) that he would divorce(pg.64) his parents and leave them behind. Jon then describes that his relations with women were rare, and he may have been celibate(pg 65), he announces this because of the books that were found on the bus. Chris had highlighted passages in Leo Tolstoy's book(pg 65)"Kreutzer Sonata", a story about the renunciation of sex. This made Krakauer realize that Chris was more drawn to nature than to any emotional human contact. On the night before he leaves, Chris entertains a bar by playing the piano. In the morning, McCandless’s friends see him off, and Borah discovers he is crying as he says goodbye to her. A week later he writes from Montana. At the end of April 1992, Burres and her boyfriend as well as Westerberg and Borah receive postcards bidding them goodbye forever.

Analysis: I do think that Chris is kind of selfish for leading people on and letting them get attached to him. Chris knew the risk he was taking going into Alaska and yet let people into his life. In his defense, it was a lonely journey, and maybe he needed human interaction.

#toalaska #attatchments #reformedpianist

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Summary: Krakauer receives a letter from a man named Ronald Franz, who asks for a copy of a 1993 magazine(pg.48) article about Christopher McCandless’s death. This leads to a visit between Krakauer and Franz. Krakauer learns from Franz that he and McCandless met while camping at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park near the Salton Sea.  Franz lost his wife and child while he was overseas, and he takes to McCandless as if the younger man were his son. Franz tries to convince McCandless to get a job, but McCandless explains to him that he has a plan. Eventually, Franz drives McCandless to San Diego, where he attempts to get work. By late February, McCandless writes to Burres and Franz to say he has jumped trains(pg.53) to Seattle. His next contact with Franz comes after his arrest and release(pg.54) for jumping a train further south. Franz drives to Colton, picks McCandless up, feeds him, gives him supplies, and helps him pack to depart for Carthage, where he says he will work for Wayne Westerberg again. The book then shows the letter(pg.56) Franz received from McCandless in April. Chris tells him to "get out of Stanton City" as a means to not settle(pg.57)down and explore the world. That was the last time Franz will ever hear from Chris. Later, Franz gets news that Chris died on his adventure. Franz renounces his religion and starts drinking again.

Analysis: This chapter gave me the most emotion. I feel really bad for Franz who lost his family basically. Then comes along a young man who Franz really admires and fathers Chris. Then soon after he is taken away from him too.

#sad #coachella #desert

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Summary: When his camera broke, he stopped taking journals(pg.38) and photographs. So the information from Vegas to Alaska is vague. We know from sources that he took residence in Bullhead City. In October he sent a postcard to Westerberg, at that time he had a full-time job(pg.39) at Mcdonald's. His coworkers always thought he was odd. Chris lives as a drifter until a man named Charlie offers him to use the trailer(pg.41) for a while. McCandless writes to Jan Burres and Bob, who is not far away. They plan on visiting him, but before they can, he turns up at their campsite. He tells them he quit his job because of the "plastic people"(pg.43). McCandless stays with Jan and Bob at the "Slabs"(pg.43). He helps them by selling books at the flea market. Chris talks about him taking a journey to Alaska and preparing for it by talking with Bob and then doing calisthenics. Then begins the journey to Alaska.

Analysis: I would never think of Chris McCandless working at a McDonald's. It seems odd because to me it shows that his character is against the government controlling him. It was also odd how he can change from not seeing a soul for 36 days and then being the life of the party. Chris McCandless was clearly a troubled mind.

#Bigmac #trailerpark #polarbear

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Summary: In the Mojave Desert a rare type of flower blooms only in gypsum(pg.26) soil. A team of rangers goes near the Detrital wash to count the flowers, but then find an abandoned Datsun that belonged to Chris McCandless. He had abandoned it after the car was through a flash flood in a place where it was off-limits in the Lake Mead Recreation Center. His journey then started on foot(pg.29). He found himself working for free with a man called Crazy Ernie in Northern California. Chris escapes that situation on a bike he stole from him. He then gets a ticket for hitchhiking which then alerts his parents. The parents hired one of the best private investigators to find him. A while later a tramping couple finds him looking at plants(pg.30) to eat, when they confront him they notice how proud(pg.30) he is to be on this risky journey. After he decides to head down to Mexico to see the Ocean. Chris gets lost and at one time was completely isolated for over a whole month. At the border(pg.36)of the U.S., he gets stopped by law enforcement then confiscates his gun. He does not give up and heads to Las Vegas.

Analysis: I thought it was funny when he stole that bike to get away from Crazy Ernie. When he was stranded in Mexico, I probably could not imagine myself in that situation, let alone not talking to anyone for a whole month. I'm pretty sure there were many times when he was in fear for his life. I admire his resilience to last as long as he did.

#Ripdatsun #SINCITY #tacos

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Summary: McCandless' family created was in the little cluster(pg.15) of a town called Carthage in South Dakota. The author is now focusing on the steps Chris took to find out how he ended up in Alaska. Krakauer meets with Wayne Westerberg to talk about the man known as Chris McCandless. Wayne remembers first picking him up off the road and then becoming great friends. He says that Alex(Chris) would always order the White Russian at the bar(pg.16). Wayne then recalls approving Chris for employment(pg.17) to work for him. The book then shifts to the authentic beginnings of Chris. He was one of 8 children his father had, six of whom were half brothers and sisters, and one who was completely related to him. McCandless had a middle-class(pg.19) upbringing and was a well-established scholar. When he was a senior in high school he bought a Datsun car(pg.21) that proved efficient every time he used it. At the end of the chapter, Chris escapes from his University in Atlanta. He begins his new life under the name "Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny."

Analysis: Chris's bonding with a complete stranger is completely fascinating to me. In this day and age, it seems impossible to form an immense bond, let alone a whole town. It was clear that Chris had family problems, but everyone does and I think running away from problems wasn't a good thing. I still appreciate Chris for journeying throughout America.

#retro #Toyota #Destined2win

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Summary: The chapter begins with a  description of the hulking(pg.9) landscape of the Alaskan Range. Also, a bit of history of the Stampede Trail itself, the trail(pg.11) was initially supposed to be a road where trucks could haul ore. The project was abandoned due to the strong rivers(pg.10) and the thawing(pg.10) permafrost. Years later, six Alaskans decide to follow that trail and stumble upon an abandoned bus with a bad smell. The Alaskans investigated the bus and found the decomposed body of Chris McCandless. The state troops are immediately called and the next day Chris' possessions(pg.12) are seized, which include a journal of his time in the wild and many self-portraits. At the time, they didn't know who Chris was because he had left his identity behind. That is where the identification begins.

Analysis: The final days for Chris must have been painful. The autopsy recorded that his cause of death was most likely starvation. This might not be what Chris' intentions were, but he knew that there was a risk. And he took it.

#RIP  #MAGICSCHOOLBUS  #SELFIES

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Summary: Into the wild is a book based on the true story where a young man named Chris McCandless who decides to find peace in the shivering(pg.3) Alaskan wild. Alex(Chris) is hitchhiking when a man named Jim Gallien decides to pick him up. After getting to know about Alex's destination, Jim is worried(pg.5)because of how minimal(pg.4) his supplies were for a long trip. Jim tells him about the forested(pg.4) bush(pg.4) that lies ahead of his journey. Alex is then convinced to take some lunch from Jim's wife.  He drops Alex off at the edge of the park, on the Stampede Trail. He is convinced Alex will leave the park and come back to civilization as soon as he faces real hardship.

Analysis: To me, it seems that Chris was living a life of simple routine and wanted a change for once. I admire the journey he took, but personally, I would not risk my life and leave my family. If only he was more prepared, Chris could have come out alive. But if he made it out alive, would we get the story that is so well known?

#YOLO #TUNA #ADVENTURE

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One of my favorite hobbies is hiking and being outdoors. When I was younger my family would always go to national parks. My favorite experience was going to the Redwood National Park. Before leading up to the Park, there would be many trails and rivers that my family and I swam in. I remember being so amazed by the height of the trees. That moment there was when I fell in love with the outside world.

My first time camping was an interesting experience. I think it was somewhere close to Los Angeles. We went in a group of 12-15, which included my cousins and other family members. I enjoyed it for the few days we were there. We showered in a river nearby and hiked the nearby hills. At right we played cards and other games. Unfortunately, I did not get to shoot any game. I'm hoping to camp more in the future.

Being outside made me feel free and it gives me a relaxing feeling. One of my goals is to travel all around the world in the future. When I hike or take walks in the woods, I feel disconnected from the world and that gives me a sense of how short life is. It makes every moment that I'm in the wild that much more beautiful.