Hello, Truckers! Today we want to show you one more magical Alaskan landmark which you can find in our game – the so-called “Into the Wild” Bus or the Magic Bus. Here it is in a screenshot from Google Maps: [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//33660248/3b11ceecb3cfe7b726dcd0d25d4ae7e47a15261b.png[/img] And here is how it looks in the game: [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//33660248/a7798357c0fa766d306217c5e9f2efe3f40c9fe6.png[/img] The bus has a fascinating history. It is probably best known from “Into the Wild”, a book and film adaptation about Christopher McCandless, a hitchhiker for whom the bus served as a home for three and a half months before he succumbed to starvation. He was the one to call it the Magic Bus. After the book was released in 1996 and the film in 2007, the bus has become a peculiar pilgrimage destination for those who wanted to retrace McCandless’s steps. Originally, however, the bus was just Bus 142, a part of the Fairbanks municipal transit system. In 1961, Yutan Construction Company purchased three busses, removed their engines, and towed them with a bulldozer along the Stampede Trail. They served as temporary site accommodation for the company’s workers who were building an access road between the Alaska Railroad and a nearby mine. When the construction was finished, the other two busses were towed away, however, Bus 142 was abandoned due to its broken axle. As the years passed, the bus has become a shelter for moose hunters and hitchhikers. In 2020, the Magic Bus has been airlifted and removed from the Alaskan wilderness. It is now being renovated at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, where it will become an exhibition. Here comes the great part – in Alaskan Truck Simulator players can still visit the bus in the wild! Will you look for it? If you’d like to support us, add our game to your Wishlist and tell your friends about it, it will greatly help us out. Thanks for sticking around, and see you next time!