Summarizer chapters 1-5

so far we find out hes a hitchiker in alaska that has basiclly nothing just the clothes on his back and backpack with little gear and a bag of 10lbs rice, the man that picks him up in alaska and drops him off at stampeed trai is jim gallean he offered to take alex to anchorage to buy some better gear be he refused. you later find out that hes from virgina and attended collage in atlanta and as soon as he gradguated he didnt tell his parents anything he jus up and left his small aprtment in atlanta gave away 25,000 to charity and started driving around the nation heading west traviling through colorado, california, arizona, oregon, idaho and eventully makes his way down to mexico in a canoe. later he ditches his car in colorado because of a flash flood wetting his engine causing it not to start and he eventully draind his battery so he removed the licens plate and left the car. one main point so far was the fact that he loves the small city in south dakota that he tells everyone thats were hes from a palce were he setteled down for the longest except in bullhead city arizona he stayed for almost two months and had a steady job at mcdonalds. he also as soon as he left on his journey from then on out he went by alex supertramp except once when he was in bullhead city he applied for a job and and gave them his real social security number.