Does this indicate a change in McCandless? Was he ready to "go home"?

Look at McCandless's response to several passages in Tolstoy's "Family Happiness" toward the end of Chater 16:

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for other...I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in hte country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easily to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire. (169)

Does this indicate a change in McCandless? Was he ready to "go home"?