tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post4883387504757428773..comments2024-03-15T12:58:50.777-06:00Comments on High Plains Drifter: Chris McCandless RevisitedTim Sheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-9779831596464911172013-10-28T10:31:57.678-06:002013-10-28T10:31:57.678-06:00This morning I got a ride with a guy who fights fi...This morning I got a ride with a guy who fights fires for a living. He gave me a ride from west of Helena to Missoula, Montana. He told me that he had a friend who used to work in South Dakota harvesting wheat. He said that he worked with Chris McCandless during the wheat harvest one year.Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-42767723548046211342012-05-04T17:59:31.460-06:002012-05-04T17:59:31.460-06:00Thanks. I have always liked Chris McCandless'...Thanks. I have always liked Chris McCandless' reckless spirit. Too much of our society is over planned and conformed to the world system. Sometimes you gotta walk on the wild side and boldly go where people tell you not to go. Going against the flow is tough at times, but then you grow new muscle and ride a horse of a different color. <br /><br />Better to be reckless than a robot.<br /><br />"Be reckless immediately, fling it all out on Him. You do not know when His voice will come, but whenever the realization of God comes in the faintest way imaginable, recklessly abandon. It is only by abandon that you recognize Him. You will only realize His voice more clearly by recklessness."<br /><br />--Oswald ChambersTim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-61229079388660664032012-05-04T17:36:12.618-06:002012-05-04T17:36:12.618-06:00Great stuff, Tim!Great stuff, Tim!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-77682811473488133202011-09-25T18:10:51.011-06:002011-09-25T18:10:51.011-06:00"Greetings from Fairbanks!
This is the last y..."Greetings from Fairbanks!<br />This is the last you shall hear from me Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender.<br />It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again, I want you to know your a great man. I now walk into the wild. Might be a very long time before I return South...<br />I now walk into the wild."<br /><br />— Chris McCandless, in postcard sent to Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota, from AlaskaTim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-82485019372070257712011-09-25T17:54:53.575-06:002011-09-25T17:54:53.575-06:00"So many people live within unhappy circumsta..."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 dangerous 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. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."<br /> <br />— Chris McCandlessTim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.com