March 5, 1992: Sends postcards to Burres and Franz from Seattle. Mails Jan Burres a postcard telling her that he has been living on the streets in San Diego for a week. January 1992: Meets Ronald Franz while hitchhiking near California's Salton Sea.ДЇebruary 1992: Dropped by Franz at the San Diego waterfront. October 1991: Arrives in Bullhead City, Arizona, where he works for two months at McDonald's and lives in an empty RV overseen by an old man named Charlie.Дecember 9, 1991: Sends a postcard to Jan Burres in Niland, California, including a map so she and boyfriend Bob can visit him in Bullhead City.Дecember 13, 1991: Unexpectedly appears at Burres's campsite at The Slabs campground in Niland. JulyвЂ“August, 1991: Possibly living in coastal Oregon, sends a postcard to Jan Burres complaining about the interminable fog and rain.

Notes in his journal that he has lost over 25 pounds.ДЇebruary 24, 1991: Unearths the few belongings that he buried in the sand when he abandoned his Datsun.ДЇebruary 27, 1991: Buries his backpack and hitchhikes into Las Vegas. JanuaryвЂ“February 1991: Travels to Houston and then to the Pacific coast.ДЇebruary 3, 1991: Applies for an ID and a job in Los Angeles, then changes his mind and returns to the road.ДЇebruary 9, 1991: Camps at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a young German couple. Immigration officials when he tries to slip back into the country from Mexico. January 16, 1991: Leaving his canoe at El Golfo de Santa Clara, starts wandering northward. January 11, 1991: Back in his canoe, encounters a violent storm that almost drowns him. Meets duck hunters who drive him there.Дecember 14вЂ“24, 1990: Pulls his canoe out of the water and sets up camp on the edge of a desolate plateau.Дecember 25, 1990: Seeking refuge from high winds, discovers a cave on the face of a bluff, where he stays for 10 days. Sends a postcard to Wayne Westerberg at the Sioux Falls work-release facility where his friend has been incarcerated.Дecember 1990: The private investigator employed by McCandless's parents discovers that their son donated $24,000 to OXFAM.Дecember 2, 1990: Reaches the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border.Дecember 6, 1990: Encounters hazardous waterfalls along the Colorado River.Дecember 12, 1990: Realizes that he will not reach the Gulf of California traveling this route. OctoberвЂ“November 1990: Canoes on the Colorado River, apparently traveling through Lake Havasu, the Bill Williams River, the Colorado River Indian Reservation, the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, and the U.S. Walks south through the desert, arriving in Topock, Arizona, where he buys a second-hand canoe. October 28, 1990: In Needles, California, reaches the Colorado River. October 1990: McCandless's Datsun is discovered by a park ranger. In Cut Bank, Montana, meets Wayne Westerberg.ДЄugust 1990: McCandless's parents drive to Atlanta looking for their son and discover that his apartment was vacated five weeks earlier.ДЄugust 10, 1990: Receives a ticket for hitchhiking in Willow Creek, California. Jan Burres and her boyfriend Bob discover McCandless by the side of the road and befriend him.

Travels to the Cascade mountains, across the lava beds of the Columbia River basin, and across the Idaho panhandle. JulyвЂ“August 1990: Hitchhikes to California's Lake Tahoe, then hikes into the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Loads his belongings into his backpack and sets out on foot. July 10, 1990: Abandons his car after it is damaged by a flash flood. July 6, 1990:В Arrives at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. McCandless's family will never hear from him again. June 1990:В Mails his final college transcript and a brief note to his parents' home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He tells his parents that he is going to spend the summer traveling in his car, a used yellow Datsun. May 12, 1990:В Christopher Johnson McCandless graduates from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. For the sake of clarity, this timeline rearranges the book's episodes in the order in which they occurred, rather than the order in which they appear in Into the Wild. Because author Jon Krakauer presents the events of Into the WildВ out of chronological order, establishing what happened when can challenge the reader.

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