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The beginning
McCandless goes out to hike in Nevada at Lake Mead -
Abandoning the car
Chris abandons his car and puts everything he had into a backpack and starts hiking -
Chris's parents
Chris's parents haven't heard from Chris so they go visit but only to find him missing -
The ticket
Chris gets a ticket in Willow Creek, California for hitchhiking -
Meeting Wayne Westerberg
Westerberg picks Chris up -
His job
Chris worked at the grain elevator until there was no more work so he left and resumed his trip -
The canoe
Chris hitchhikes a ride to Needles, California. Walks through a desert until he gets to Topock, Arizona which he bought a canoe -
Mexico
Chris reaches the Mexican border -
The cave
There is high winds and Chris finds a cave and stays there for 10 days -
The storm
When he gets back on the Canoe there is a storm that he almost drowns in having him abandon it and go back north -
Getting caught
When he gets to the U.S. border he gets caught my immigration and spends the night in jail -
The backpack
Chris buries his backpack and hitchhikes to Las Vegas -
His job
He arrives in Bullhead City, Arizona and works at McDonald's for two months while living in an empty RV -
Ronald Franz
Chris and Ronald Franz meet near Salon Sea in California -
Alaska
Chris leaves Carthage and heads for Alaska -
Postcards
He sends Burres and Franz postcards in Seattle -
The bus
He finds an old bus by the Sushana River and decides to stay there -
His death
Chris died in Alaska on the Stampede Trail in the bus