You're Wrong About

Chris McCandless with Blair Braverman

Feb 27, 2023
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ANECDOTE

Alaska Highway Oddities

  • Sarah and Blair recount driving the Alaska Highway and staying in sparsely serviced, character-filled stops where services and security can be unpredictable.
  • Their hotel anecdote illustrates how lonely, improvisational infrastructure feels on that route.
ANECDOTE

The Bus Manifesto

  • Chris found an abandoned bus used as a shelter and painted a long manifesto celebrating freedom, travel, and his new name Alexander Supertramp.
  • His journal declared his mission and framed Alaska as the climactic spiritual revolution he sought.
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Moose Disaster And Stranded SOS

  • After months of living off small game, Chris shot a moose but failed to preserve it, letting the meat spoil and calling it a 'colossal waste.'
  • Later he became trapped when the Teklanika River swelled and wrote a polite SOS note promising to 'shall return this evening.'
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