Where would I go?

If I could go anywhere in the United States I would go to a place that is hard to get to and few have ever been to. I really want to go to Howland Island, which is a part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. It is a 3sq. mile island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There are no inhabitants, although a town was built on it in the 30's, but was destroied by a Japanese submarine. The only standing structure that is standing to day is the Earhart Day Beacon. This is a short, one-two story concrete tower that is hollow on the inside and is visible to passing ships. It was named for Amelia Earhart, who died trying to find the island on her flight around the world.
Today there is the old day beacon, an unusable landing strip intended for Earhart, foundations of the town, some aircraft wreckage, and a shallow depression in the middle of the otherwise flat island that is the site of long since dry lagoon. The rocky ground supports no vegetation higher than scrubby little plants and there is no fresh water or any source of food. The whole island is a bird sanctuary for seabirds and is visited by the US government once every 2 years. Although a permit is required to visit the island, it is unlikely anyone would care, much less notice, if you decided to travel there; which I intend to do some day.
cia.gov and wikipedia

Jon Krakauer

As a part of our Into the Wild unit I have been assigned to write a paragraph about the author, Jon Krakauer. He is from Oregon and is an expert mountian climber and a skilled writer also. He first learned to climb at age eight, and some of his more famous climbs inclurde the Devil's Thumb (this is described in Into the Wild), Mt. Everest, and the west face of Cerro Torre. He has written articles in magasines and books about his climbing experiences and many other things that often invovle the outdoors inparticular, including Into the Wild.
This information is from randomhouse.com. Random Hous published his book Under the Banner of Heaven and has a profile on him on their website.

Into the Wild...again.

The book Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer is about Chris McCandless who, after graduating from college, decideds to roam North America. His travels take him all over the continent, from Mexico to Alaska. Along the way he learns about himself and life as a human on Earth. His journey is two years of adventure and discovery, but sadly ends when he starves to death in an old school bus in the Alaskan wilderness. I had already read this book for a class, but now we have to read it again. Luckily I still have a picture on my blog from the last Into the Wild blog post. Over all it was an okay book, but it seemed like the author kept going off on random tangents for no reason at all. Now I'm reading it again, mabey it will get better...I better read it again just to make sure that the same thing happens. Maybe I can tell Chris no to go to the bus, but that would be kind of like yelling at the TV. It's worth a try. Aren't those fish just tantalizing? If you click the water it feeds them; and they follow your arrow around.