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he informes his family that he has taken to call himself Lan Rameau and request that they "please respect my brush name....."
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Addressedhis parrents and his brother, they indicated that he would be incommunicado for a "month ot two" eight days after mailing them.
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Bill gave birth to a son
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chris bought his father a present :a very expencive Questar telescope
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The morrning mccandless left to go on his adventure
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He begins "a very fateful day." After travling some distance south, he beaches the canoe on a sandbar far from shore to observe the powerful tides.
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He left a stubby meatal boat on a hummock of dune grass southeast of EL Golfo de Santa Clara and started walking north up the deserted beach.
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Chris went to Los Angeles
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Had an conffeshion with franz that he was having trouble finding work.
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He returned to Detrital Wash
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He mailed a poastcard to Jan Burres. "Hello!" it reads
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He wrote Burres another letter.
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Fraz offered to take Chris to Grand Junction, Colorado
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Franz left McCandless on the shoulder of Interstate 70 outside Grand Junction and returned to California.
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Crown fell off one of his mowlers
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5 Squirrel
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Porcupine, Ptarmigan, 4 squarrel, gray bird.
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Another Porcupine. 4 squirrel, 2 gray bird.
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a Third porcupine!!, squrriel, gray bird, ash bird.
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shot a canada goose as big as a christmas tree
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Bagged the biggest of them all a MOOSE!!!!!
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Removed half of a rib cage and stakes can only work nights "start smoking"
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Get remainder of ribcage , shoulder and neck to cave. "start smokeing"
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"maggots already!" smoking apperas inneffective. dont know, looks like disaster. now i witsh i never shot the moose. one of the biggest tragedies of my life."
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starts a backpacking journey.
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McCandless is thrilled to hear from Jan! "I am so glad to find you both alive and sound." He exclamed in a letter.
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Chris departed Carthage, south dakota
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He arrived in white fish this morrning on a freight train.
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After pausing on the bus for four das at the bus , he returned his perambulataion.
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"Gourmet Duck!"
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However the Taklanika was full flood, swollen with rain and snowmelt from glaciers high n the alaska range
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He went on a hike around lake mead.
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Shortly be for meeting Jan Burres and Bob McCandless Chris had been ticketed for hitchhicking near willow creak.
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Carine was giving a rottweiler a bath as Chris pulled in the drive way
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He records in his journal that be thinks he has found Wellteco Canal and heads south>
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Small but dangerous waterfalls litter the canal.
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All hopes callapse!! The canal reaches a swamp not the ocean which he wants to get to.
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Resumes quest for the opening to the sea.
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Chris reaches the mexican boarder
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He reached the Morelos Dam
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Weary of paddling, he haulted the canoe far up the beac, climed a sandstone bluff, and sets up camp on the edgeof a desolated plateau.
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This writer recived an unushual letter, penned in a shackey, anachronistic script that seggested an elderly author. "to whom it my concern," the letter begins.