Comments on: Into the Wild http://lancastria.net/blog/into-the-wild.html Neuschwanstein, a castle that belongs in Blackburn Lancashire less the 4000 holes Fri, 18 May 2012 05:09:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sharp paw tailwagger http://lancastria.net/blog/into-the-wild.html#comment-442 Sharp paw tailwagger Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:45:18 +0000 http://lancastria.net/blog/?p=3#comment-442 If you saw Marc Paterson hiking in the woods or hitchhiking along a lonely back road, you might not think much of it. In fact you might not even notice. That suits Paterson just fine. The 29-year-old is on the journey of a lifetime … a journey that could cost him his life. And he couldn't be happier. "I'm going to test my limits, I guess, to see what it's like to be hungry. I'm trying to put myself in an environment where nothing's spoon-fed. I mean, where I might have to go run around the woods for a bit, or go fishing for a few hours to catch a fish, catch my own dinner," he said. "It's really rewarding. In our society where you can just swipe a card or a debit card, it gets a little too easy some time. I'm challenging myself." It is a challenge quietly taken up by hundreds around the world, all of them headed to Alaska, chasing a dream written down in the pages of a best-seller and now on screen in a movie called "Into the Wild." "Into the Wild" is the true story of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old honors graduate from a privileged East Coast family who died a lonely, painful death in the Alaskan bush. It is the story of how he got there and what he did along the way that has made McCandless an almost saintlike figure to his many devoted followers. If you saw Marc Paterson hiking in the woods or hitchhiking along a lonely back road, you might not think much of it. In fact you might not even notice. That suits Paterson just fine.

The 29-year-old is on the journey of a lifetime … a journey that could cost him his life. And he couldn’t be happier.

“I’m going to test my limits, I guess, to see what it’s like to be hungry. I’m trying to put myself in an environment where nothing’s spoon-fed. I mean, where I might have to go run around the woods for a bit, or go fishing for a few hours to catch a fish, catch my own dinner,” he said. “It’s really rewarding. In our society where you can just swipe a card or a debit card, it gets a little too easy some time. I’m challenging myself.”

It is a challenge quietly taken up by hundreds around the world, all of them headed to Alaska, chasing a dream written down in the pages of a best-seller and now on screen in a movie called “Into the Wild.”

“Into the Wild” is the true story of Chris McCandless, a 24-year-old honors graduate from a privileged East Coast family who died a lonely, painful death in the Alaskan bush. It is the story of how he got there and what he did along the way that has made McCandless an almost saintlike figure to his many devoted followers.

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