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Date of Birth
Christopher Johnson McCandless is born into the family of Walter and Wilhelmina McCandless. He was the first of their two childeren. -
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Birth/Life/Death
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New Home
In 1976 his family moved to Annandale, Virginia. Due to his father working for NASA. During this time Walt McCandless had not yet divorce his previous wife. Walt had six previous childeren while Chris and his sister Carine. At this point time Chris didn't know about this affair until 1986. -
Graduation of High School
Durning his time at Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia Chris was strongly encoraced by idealism and was also the captian of the cross country team. He passed high school with flying colors like red, powder blue.(GO SOUTHSIDE) with a 3.72 GPA -
Graduation of Emory University
Chirs graduates from Emory University with flying colors like high school. But also on this date Chris wrote a check to charity worth $24,000 -
The Adventure Begins
A day after graduation and giving away his entire life savings to charity Chris walks away from his family and friends to begin his journey to Alaska. -
Leaving the Datsun
After his beloved Datsun stoped working after a flashflood Chris decides to abandon his car and begins to hitchike. -
Colorado River
After months of walking and meeting amazing people on his trip. Chris now calling himself Alexander Supertramp kayaks down the Colorado River and enters Mexico. -
L.A
Chris hikes to L.A and attempts to get his ID. This is where he changes his name to Alexander Supertramp. Soon after arrival he leaves L.A. -
People of 1991
After leaving L.A. Chris starts to make an impact on many people. He meets Wayne Westernburg and works for him for a few weeks. Throughout Chris` travels he writes to Wayne explaining his travels. He also makes an impact on a man named Ronald Franz. This impact was so huge for Franz he attemped to adopt Chris. -
Arrested
After spending a few months in Mexico. Chirs is arrested after trying to enter the US. -
Welcome to Alaska
Chris is last seen by Jim Gallien who drops Chris off at the Stampede Trail. This will be the last time anyone will ever see of Chris. -
Magic Bus Journal
Throughout his 113 days in his Alaskan journey he keeps a journal to tell what he has accomplished and what he has found such as this. Day 43: Killed a MOOSE! Day 94: weaker due to potato seeds. Day 100: made it weakest condtion of life. And the final entries were only filled in by slashes. -
Found Body
Moose hunters stumpled upon the Magic bus 142. And discovered Chris` body severly starved. They also found his final words. "I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL."
