Super tramp skills to the job A miles of hiking + A short drive to find a cover on a cold night in Spiti. A clear road is always welcomed Excerpt From Into the Wild, what are "rubber tramps" and "leather tramps?" Rubber and Leather Tramps are descriptions that vagabonds use to describe a person's method of transportation. A rubber tramp has a car or other wheeled vehicle, and travels on the rubber tires. A leather tramp has no vehicle, and travels on foot, shoes often being made of leather. The distinction comes from both ease of travel -- a rubber tramp is more able to decide destination than one who relies on hitchhiking -- and an unofficial status: rubber tramps are sometimes seen as "less valid" than leather tramps because their vehicle is viewed as a luxury item. Chris started out as a rubber tramp in his old Datsun car, but soon found the opportunity to change his status. With the battery dead there was no way to get the Datsun running. [...] Instead of feeling distraught over this turn of events, moreover, McCandless was exhilarated: He saw the flash flood as an opportunity to shed unnecessary baggage. As Chris had specific ideals about his vagabonding, he turned the abandonment of his car into a life event; he buried some of his possessions to recollect later and burned his money, throwing off the shackles of monetary and material goods to travel alone. In a way, the transformation of Chris from rubber to leather tramp acted as a turning point for him, allowing him to more fully realize his dreams of wandering the country without ties to society hence he called himself 'supertramp'
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