Hawaii!!!!

I have always wanted to go to Hawaii . My friend went two years ago and she said it was the best vacation she had ever been on! I am not the type of person who likes to go somewhere where the only cool thing there to do is to go to museums and learn about history, I like to go somewhere where you can do all kind of different things. I also really love to go to the beach. And I would also like to see all of the different volcanoes that make up Hawaii .
Since Hawaii is islands I would obviously have to get there by boat or a plane. I would probably end up going there in the summer so i would have to bring shorts, t-shirts and swim suits to go swimming in the many beaches there. All year round Hawaii is pretty warm, but you can find snow on the mountain tops.  Hawaii is mostly known for its beaches and the volcanoes that make up the 8 islands of Hawaii. It would be very cool to take a helicopter ride above the islands and see all of the volcanoes. 


(from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii) (Pictures from http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.alohaislandtravel.com/maps/images/islands)

Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer was born in 1954 in Corvallis, Oregon. In Oregon his father introduced him to mountaineering at age 8. Krakauer graduated from Hampshire college in 1976 and decided to travel. He went to Alaska, Colorado and the Pacific North earning his living as a carpenter or a salmon fisher and spending all of his free time in the mountains. In 1977 he decided to go the remote Stikine Icecap in Southeast Alaska. In Alaska he did not come in contact with anybody for 3 weeks! Krakauer was an extremely adventurous person and loved climbing mountains. In 1999 Krakauer recieved an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  According to them "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind."

"Jon Krakauer." Random House - Bringing You the Best in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children's Books. Web. 08 Feb. 2011. 

The Wild Adventure of Into the Wild

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, is about Chris McCandless who goes into the Alaskan wilderness and tried to survive. He ends up having to to hitch hike to Alaska and barely has anything to bring with him. When he declines the offer from a friend to buy him better supplies to endure the cold, he only has 10 pounds of rice, a rifle, several boxes of rifle rounds, a camera, and a small selection of reading material. with these very few supplies he survives 119 days until he eats a poisonous plant and dies in August in an abandoned bus in Alaska. I am very excited to read this book because I have seen a little bit of the movie and would love to see how the book and movie match up. 

  http://ryanpatton.glogster.com/Into-the-Wild-Before-the-End/