Memories Are Made From Traveling

"The author describes a man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch and map and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the 'wilderness' west of Healy" (Krakauer 71). 

Topic: Inspiration or Fool?

          What could a kid ask for in life when you have everything you need? Chris is someone who believes that life is best lived alone, in nature. He is a young man from the east coast family who hitchhiked and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Some people think that Chris is a fool for doing things that he did because he had everything. Chris had a loving family who cared for him, and he had money which he burned while traveling through Alaska. His dad was a rich and successful man who worked with the NASA. His parents would get him anything and everything he wanted. When he got to alaska he changed his name, gave a balance of a twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all his money. He wanted to travel to alaska to invent a new life for himself, and experience new things. As he leaves for alaska his family had no idea where he was or what he was doing. His family finally found out where he was when his remains turned up in alaska.