When Chris completely abandons his life, he travels for two years moving all along the southwestern United States, and eventually moves to the Magic Bus in Alaska. This bus is where Chris’s dead body is found in September of 1992, along with an S.O.S note he wrote when he realized he is close to death. The environment in which Chris lived for that extended period of time is vital to his story; this isn’t like a boy scouting trip in which you bring your grocery store graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate, and roast them while laughing with your friends. This isolation made Chris completely dependent on the land, even having him record in his journal what food he caught that day. Some days it was squirrels, other days he was lucky to find
