What is the name of the novel?

Question

It may be "Into the woods". Not sure. This youngster leaves the midwest and heads north into the woods. He's either going to Alaska or Canada. He keeps a diary and this is supposedly the book itself. I guess he dies out there and he finds a bus in the middle of nowhere that becomes his home. This is all I remember.

Answer 1

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. I liked it. The boy was called Christopher McCandless right?

Answer 2

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

It is a great book and is/has been made into a moive:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/