Chris abandons his car at Lake Meade National Park
Abadons his car and sets out to hike Lake Meade
Chris's Parents Hadn't Heard From Him Since Graduation
Chris is ticketed for hitchhiking near Willow Creek
Westerberg Picks Up Chris
Chris Leaves Carthage
Hitchhikes into Needles, California
Reaches the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border
Journal Entry: reaches Wellteco Canal- heads south
Gets a tow to the ocean
Climbs up a sandstaone bluff, sets up camp on the edge of a platteau
Decides to abadon canoe and head north
Gets caught by immigration
Returns to Detrital Wash
Arrives in Las Vegas and gets a job at an italian restaurant
Leaves Las Vegas
Spends July and August on the Oregon Coast
Arrives in Bullhead City, Arizona
Writes to Jan Burres
Meets Ronald Franz
Chris's 24th birthday
Chris calls Franz to wish him happy birthday
Mails a postcard to Jan Burres
Leaves Carthage, bound for Alaska
Sends a card to Burres and Franz saying he's in Seattle riding rails
Franz offers to take Chris to Grand Junction
Franz drops Chris off in Grand Junction, Colorado
Works at Wayne Westerberg's grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota.
Stops at Liard Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada, where he is stuck for two days before hitching a ride with Gaylord Stuckey in the cab of his sunflower-seed-hauling truck.
Reads up on edible plants at the University of Alaska's Fairbanks campus. Buys a used gun and sends postcards. Leaving the campus, hikes west.
Pitches his tent on frozen ground not far from the Stampede Trail.
picked up by Jim Gallien, a truck-driving electrician on his way to Anchorage
