During my time in Alaska I watched the movie "Into the Wild". The true story of the death of Christopher McCandless,who in 1992 hiked into the Alaskan wilderness with very little supplies and ended up living in a bus parked on an overgrown section of the trail near Denali National Park.
This is the last photo of Chris which was a self-portrait found undeveloped in his camera. He knew he was dying and his final words were "I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all". Chris died of starvation 113 days later and his body was found approx 2 wks later by hunters. The bus was located in Denali Borough; what is now known as Stampede Road that begins near the Nenana River at the Alaska Railroad's Anchorage-Fairbanks route in the village of Lignite.Our B&B is located on Lignite Road, close to Lignite village and is opposite the Stampede Road when you cross over they hwy. Very interesting to think we are so close, but probably still quite far from the actual "magic bus" as Chris called it. These are the signs at the intersection where we turned in to our B&B.
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