Last month I went to see the last showing in Oklahoma city for the film “Into the Wild.” Amazing. Absolutely amazing!!! The story of Chris McCandless is remarkable. I would give anything to be able to take a leap of faith as Chris did. Transforming himself into Alexander Supertramp. I have the utmost respect for him and the legacy of leather-tramps that have followed him. I dream of being able to make the trek to what has become a mecca in it’s own right. A mecca for those searching and testing themselves as they hit the road, of bus 142. To be able to see where he became himself, Alexander Supertramp. His final place on earth. I travel, hike, and explore with the utmost respect for you, Alexander Supertramp!!!!
“Two years he walks the earth.
No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ’cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”
— Alexander Supertramp
May 1992
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
— Chris McCandless
