Excerpts from a letter from Alex Supertramp to Ronald Franz

A letter from Christopher McCandless to Ronald Franz

"...So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure..."

"...Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience..."

Papar

I feel relations to these monks known as papar. They were on a constant voyage. The risked their lives to claim new lands that belonged only to them.
When just a small amount of people showed up on the coast they had decided that the land became too crowded and that they must leave. They set off towards Greenland in their small vessels across storm-racked oceans.
They were driven by a hunger of the spirit.
When reading of these monks you are able to see their intense courage, reckless innocence, and the urgency of their desire which is starkly parallel to the lives and ideals of Everett and Christopher.

WE ARE

I am not the only one to do this. Im not insane for this. There were others before me like bright lanterns leading us through the heavy fog of dull and demanding society. The fog that encompasses us and binds us to our earthly beings. Nowhere does the fog dissipate until we are finally on our own and wild. When we travel the fog vanishes and hangs low in the remains of our past selves. The ones we left so that we can feel free.

Solace is our peace where nothing else was.
-Jon Krakauer

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US Hwy Alaska Mile 0

I have finally made my way towards Alaska. I've sent postcards to the ones who matter.   They are the only people who I want to know where I am...It's been a slow process getting here. Winding my way along what seems like endless highways. So far it has been treating me well and i'm ready to expand my horizons once more to the Alaskan bush. Live off the land once more. Live the way I want to. I've prepared long and hard for this. I am ready

Impending Threats

So that man named Franz did ask to adopt me. I told him that I would talk more about it when I returned for Alaska. That was my way of dodging it. He did a lot for me. He picked me up when I called for him. That was nice and all but I can't be tied down like that. I'm  relieved that I evaded the impending threat of human intimacy, of friendship and of all that messy emotional baggage that comes with it. Im free now and there is no point in going back. Later I wrote him a long letter about it. I want him to see and understand what I do. So that he can live satisfied. He's so solitary and lonely, but he can easily convert that into something that is food for the soul.

Personal Connections

It seems that this man name Franz cares a lot about me... like he wants to be my father. He is getting to close to me and that's exactly why I left my home in the first place. The only connections I want to make are with myself and nature. I wrote him a letter explaining to him how he can live his life like mine. How to not get too comfortable and to embrace whatever comes his way. I want him to understand that I enjoyed all the times that we spent together but he would be wrong to think that joy only emanates from human relationships. Your deepest relationship should be with yourself and the way to achieve that is to spend a lot of time solo. I told him that he would be very glad if he did so.

"No man ever followed his genius until it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principals." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

Mexico

Journal Excerpt for Christopher McCandless's Field Journal

Mexico~

he screams and beats canoe with oar. The oar breaks. Alex has one spare oar. He calms himself. If loses second oar is dead. Finally through extreme effort and much cursing he manages to beach canoe on jetty and collapses exhausted on sand at sundown. This incident led Alexander to decide to abandon canoe and return north. 

"To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality."  - Paul Shepard, Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Aesthetics of Nature

Bullhead City Longest Residence

I have been here in Bullhead City for about a month and half now working at McDonald's. Moving slowly no urgency. Its not necessary they are simply burgers and I'm getting tired of "plastic people." All of the people that I work with. They are not like me at all. They are so stable and worried about their jobs and money and their boyfriend or girlfriends like they mean everything... It's shallow. This job is so small because I seek further in my life. Its only because for a second I missed stability, a brief second and that's it. Even opening a bank account here in town. Commuting by bicycle. Long rides that left me time to think and process
The itchy feet are coming back. I need to move soon. I've been here for too long it's starting to get to me.

"It's a good place to spend the winter and I might finally settle down and abandon my tramping life, for good." - Christopher McCandless

Master of the Road, and my own Destiny

Reminiscent  of the language of his actual journal

His name is not Christopher McCandless anymore thats the old him. It's now Alex Supertramp, master of the road and his own destiny. The person who was stuck in society going to school and working and following the rules is gone. Rules no more he said. The road is his and thats what will dictate his life. He is headed on an unknown journey. With his final destination in the Alaskan bush. It will be long but worth it to finally be free the way he wants to live. I wish you knew that you didnt have to live the way you do. You don't have to be stuck You don't have to have other people constantly surrounding you to have a constant light in your life. I want to be an example of that

Don't be too stubborn to not engage in new circumstances.