Chris McCandless
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Christopher Johnson McCandless, also known by his pseudonym "Alexander Supertramp", was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up.
A replica of Bus 142, used in the film Into the Wild
Alaska Army National Guard airlifting the bus via a Boeing CH-47 Chinook on June 18, 2020
Slab City, California
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Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community consisting largely of snowbirds in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County
Chris McCandless
…There is no indication of McCandless having any romantic partners throughout his life, and he is believed to have remained celibate. While staying in Niland Slabs, a 17-year-old girl made advances, but McCandless rejected them. McCandless left Virginia in the summer of 1990, driving a Datsun west in an apparent…
The Second Guardshack, originally installed as a security measure by the United States Marine Corps, now painted with a sign welcoming visitors to Slab City
The Slab City Christian Center in October 2007
Salvation Mountain – God is Love; 2015 photo
"East Jesus" sculpture garden entry