I posted briefly last month about My Favorite Hitchhiker. I picked Jeremy, the good Frenchman, up outside of Wasilla, Alaska last fall standing on the side of the road with a backpack and a sign that simply read “World Tour.” It’s a little more than six months later and Jeremy and I have been corresponding […]
Visiting Into the Wild’s Magic Bus
We made the hike to visit Into the Wild’s magic bus on Stampede trail outside of Healy, Alaska this weekend. The jury is out and the famed bus from the popular book by John Krakauer and movie by Sean Penn (Into the Wild) is still the subject of considerable controversy. Christopher McCandless himself has become […]
Into the Wild – Follow my search for the magic bus live!
Update: The full story is up < includes finding Into the Wild’s Magic bus Update: 21 March 2010 10:30 PM Alaska Time Mission Accomplished, but no, really this time. The Magic Bus from Into the Wild has been located. My legs are so tired I can barely imagine to stand on them and my feet […]
My Favorite Hitchhiker
I was cruising out of Wasilla, Alaska, home of the now, for some reason, infamous Sarah Palin on the Volkswagen bus’ last leg when I spy about the side of the road a fellow branding a sign that read simply “World Tour.” Well, how could you not pick him up, seriously? I was asked as […]