Hiking to the Into The Wild Bus; Arriving At The Bus!

Roughly 28 miles in and we're finally at the bus. We've crossed two deep and fast moving rivers, 20+ streams, hiked 13 miles up and down mountains and hills and have a 13 mile hike back to camp to look forward to, all in 24 hours. Needless to say, we're exhausted.

We didn't make this trek because we idolize Chris McCandless or what he did. We don't condone his decisions or his actions, nor do we fully understand them. Chris did lead an extraordinary life and had the courage to follow his dreams, even if they led him to his own demise.

I can't speak for Sean, though I know we have a similar outlook on Chris' story but as for me, I came to see the land and having a destination that was the core of a well told story made it that much more worthwhile.

Follow your dreams but not that the expense of common sense.

It's late, I'll likely revise this and post a link to a blog about our trip.

Constructive comments and criticisms only please. Please be respectful of other commenters, we're each entitled to our own opinions and interpretations.

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[shanesworld]

@PoohLuvdMe - Well said!

[sircloud7]

would have been cool to show something that chris wrote, in his own hand, on that bus

[shanesworld]

@sircloud7 they were all long gone.

[PoohLuvdMe]

This movie causes so much introspection. Chris was raised with everything he needed financially to live a good life and get a college education, but hated hypocrites & fakes (primarily his parents) who live in a pretend world. College courses raised his consciousness level about the evils of society & the lures of obscurity & living on the land, but he was stupidly naive to think that he could check out, be blind to people that came to love him along the way & be ill-prepared for this adventure

[quaxk]

@volkltiger he was young and idealistic, he had a romantic view of nature and probably no nordic survival experience, I did shit as stupid and dangerous as he did at his age, probably more so, I survived because I wasn't alone, like him I didn't really know what I was doing, but I though I did at the time, when I first heard about him I though too he was an idiot, but ron lamothe documentary changed my mind, it made me remember I was like him at that age, too bad he experimented alone

[volkltiger]

If his parents were blue collar this story would not be what it is. They were rich so America was interested.  Lotta of ignorant kids dying in the woods with out a Sean Penn film to follow!

[mrbtb1234]

No one should be calling him stupid for his own decisions, maybe its true he didn't know what he was doing out there but it was his life. He was living and that's all that matters.

[tontsa911]

Amazing video...

[SexuaIChocolate]

@aoghiroshima You're retarded

[12345678910LILLI]

what did the letters say?

[sophieovertheworld]

"Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying" Thats a quote from The Shawshank Redemption.

[APokeInTheEye]

He's diary is actually still there?????

[bunnygopoke]

@PoohLuvdMe the whole point of his "adventure" was to be ill-prepared so he had to live off the land.. as for meeting people along the way, he did stay in touch with some of the people, like he sent post cards.. but the point of the whole fucking thing wasn't to meet people and make lasting friendships if he wanted that he wouldn't have left his home. He wanted to escape society as much as he could and meeting people became necessary as always living on the road is near impossible..