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Removing the Bus did nothing.
Now it is an even greater challenge and adventure to find the spot where the bus was.
It is the location, not the bus that is the adventure.
Nah.......the bus was the ultimate selfie spot! No bus, nothing to mark the adventure.
If you pulled off the Alaska highway and simply took a selfie of some bushes you could say you are in "the spot" and nobody could argue you weren't.
The people looking for the magic bus won't go now that there is no magic bus.
Nah.......the bus was the ultimate selfie spot! No bus, nothing to mark the adventure.
If you pulled off the Alaska highway and simply took a selfie of some bushes you could say you are in "the spot" and nobody could argue you weren't.
The people looking for the magic bus won't go now that there is no magic bus.
Keep dreaming. A memorial will be built at the site, and people will take their selfies there. People love to create memorials, and even if the State were to keep removing it, people would keep rebuilding it. And no the location will never be a secret. There is this little thing called "GPS" which most people have and which will direct anyone to the location where the bus stood. Nothing is going to keep people from visiting the site.
That's a narrow and incorrect definition of brilliance IMO.
One can concurrently be brilliant and reckless/foolish.
I have an old book that profiles mathematicians from 1800's and 1900's who have made major contributions to their field of study. All of them were obviously brilliant, yet the anecdotes of their personal lives frequently made me wonder how they could be so smart and yet also "stupid" in practical matters of life.
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What is the name of this book... it sounds interesting.
What is the name of this book... it sounds interesting.
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Back to the Wild.
I think KittenSparkles is asking about the name of the book Arktikos made mention of, the old book he has that profiles mathematicians from 1800's and 1900's who have made major contributions to their field of study.
Rescue crews would have nothing to do but sit around their barracks practicing tying knots and watching soap operas on the TV
Well, in that area, they would be free to do the many other things they are responsible for, be they volunteer firefighters with "day jobs", state law enforcers, or park rangers.
To another poster, having lived in that area for nearly a decade before moving away, I saw the Teklanika River in that area in all months in all seasons of the year. Only once in nine years during a very wet spring did I see it where it was utterly unswimmable and I'm sure it was only for a week or two. But my "unswimmable" and McCandless's "unswimmable" and "unswimmable" to the unfortunate woman who was the subject of this thread originally, are three different things.
I thought it was "Into the Wild"? The original book.
Then there was "Into Thin Air", another true adventure gripper of a story (Mt. Everest).
I think they were asking about this book:
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I have an old book that profiles mathematicians from 1800's and 1900's who have made major contributions to their field of study. All of them were obviously brilliant, yet the anecdotes of their personal lives frequently made me wonder how they could be so smart and yet also "stupid" in practical matters of life.
LOL...not only have you misinterpreted the question of the other poster (he was asking about the mathematician book), but you got the title of Krakauer's book wrong...and also the book title is in the subject line!
Not meaning to pick on you, but it is funny...
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