Interior of BUS 142 from the book "Into the Wild," where Chris McCandless died. We were there August 9, 2006. This is around the same time of year when McCandless passed away. I was pleased to see that the Bible his parents left behind WAS still there, as well as the brass plaque they dedicated to his memory. We searched the walls of the bus for any sign of McCandless's graffiti but couldn't find any. That's what we are talking about when I say "Think it's all gone?" In its' place are HUNDREDS of other comments written or scratched into the walls from everyone that's made the pilgrimage out there. Most of it is peoples' initials or names and the date they were there ( T-Bomb 24/May/05 ). Others have written lenghty passeges from Tolstoy and Thoreau or whomever. The one that stuck out and stayed with me was lifted from Shawshank Redemption, "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'." BREVITY! Unfortunately, our group (including Matt, aka: Mattynipplepensacola, who has posted the other two videos that I shot) DIDN"T have much time to look extensively for any of McCandless's handwriting. In the final seconds of this video I held on some random graffiti, but it's much too dark to show up in this clip.

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