He also informs him that he will be spending his life on the road. He sends a postcard to Wayne Westerberg, complaining light-heartedly that the money he earned at the Westerbergs has made tramping too easy. On his way, he travels through the desert and many national parks. On the West Coast, McCandless reaches Needles in California, and buys a canoe to navigate the Colorado River from California to Mexico.ĭuring his travels, McCandless survives only on rice and fish caught from the river. They receive a ticket for the Datsun car from California and hire a private investigator who finds out that Chris McCandless has donated his money to charity. Meanwhile, McCandless’s parents have also started searching for him. He worked on a farm in Northern California and meets a woman named Jan Burres and her boyfriend, Bob, who give him a ride. He next describes McCandless's trip around Lake Mead for the next two months in which he hiked to Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains. The narrator cites McCandless’s diary to prove his point. McCandless buried the rifle he was carrying and burnt all his money. On July 6, 1990, McCandless arrived in an area of Lake Mead called Detrital Wash and got caught in a flashflood due to which his car's engine got wet and he had to abandon the car. He then reveals that the owner of yellow Datsun is Chris McCandless. The rangers now use the car to make undercover drug investigations, Krakauer writes. A ranger looks for a clue of the owner and is led to a Hertz rental car operation but meets a dead end there. Inside the car, there are clothes, a guitar, and two bags of rice. It has been abandoned and is free for the taking, reads the note on it. In October 1990, a National Park Service ranger finds a yellow Datsun car in a dry riverbed in Lake Mead National Park.
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