Into the Wild

  • Emory University

    Emory University
    In June 1990, I graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. (p22)
  • Lake Mead

    Lake Mead
    In July 1990, On a afternoon near Lake Mead, My car broke down and I had to abandon it in the Arizona desert. (p23)
  • Period: to

    Sierra Nevada

    I wandered around the west for two months, and walked the trails of Sierra Nevada before crossing paths with Westerberg in Montana. (p24)
  • Bullhead City, Arizona

    Bullhead City, Arizona
    When 1991 drew to close I was in Bullhead City, Arizona, where for three months I in a tent and flipped burgers at McDonalds. (p29)
  • Golfo De Santa Clara

    Golfo De Santa Clara
    January 16, 1991, I left a stubby metal boat on a hummock of dune grass southeast of Golfo De Santa Clara and started walking north up the deserted beach. (p27)
  • Carthage

    Carthage
    When I arrived back in Carthage on a bitter February morning in 1992, I´d already decided that he would depart for Alaska on April 15. (p31)