An amazing woman!

Amelia Earhart was a young 10 year old girl from Kansas at her first state fair where she knew that her first sight of that plane was pure love at first sight. In December 1928 Amelia was given her first flight in a plane and she knew that it was destined that she fly air planes. Then in 1921 after her stint in Canada as a nurse during WWI, college, and then a social worker in Boston Amelia got her first flying lessons. In six months she had saved enough money to buy her own plane, a Kinner Airster two seater biplane. It was bright yellow and named Canary. Amelia broke not only the sexual barrier as a woman pilot but also set records with her plane, once setting the women's record altitude which was 14,000 feet. She went on to breaking and setting many records but towards the end of her career there was one final challenge that she wished to conquer. She wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world. In 1937 nearing her 40th birthday her wish was to come true. She and her chosen co-pilot Fred Noonan set out in their twin engine Lockheed Electra on June 1st 1937 to conquer this 29,000 mile journey from Miami. On June 29th, they had nearly finished the long journey with only 7,000 miles left to go. They landed in Lae, New Guinea where they were to refuel and head towards. Their next stop was the Howland Islands, a mile and half long by a mile wide island, located 2,256 miles away. In order to make sure that they had enough fuel they stripped out all of the unnecessary items that were in the airplane to add more fuel storage. Along this historical route were three ships, one U.S. Coast Guard cutter named ITASCA and two other U.S. ships. The ITASCA was the radio contact and the other two ships were ordered to 'burn every possible light' to help the crew. On July 2nd the two set out for the Howland Islands and at 8:45am the last radio transmission from Earhart to the ITASCA was made "we are running north and south" then radio silence.....Now the question is, what happened after that?

The unexplained.....

Why is it we that we are intrigued by the unknown? Why is that we pour hundreds of hours and dollars in to trying to solve histories greatest mysteries? Is it because we can't stand not knowing or is it because we can't handle the cliff hanger? Do we desire to always know the answers, or crave solutions? Have your ever lost sleep trying to figure a problem out? Why does Hollywood spend millions of dollars creating movies about unsolved historical mysteries? Although it drives us mad at times, it has also driven some of us to greatness and driven us to many advances in society. It's also believed that some use the unknown as a way to escape reality. A way to leave your everyday life and fuels us to push the limits of our imagination, the way adrenaline junkies push the limits. Simply put, it's because we are human, we push the limits of our imagination to answer on simple question....WHY? Take for example the Lost Colony of Roanoke. What did happen to the colony? Why would of they just left with no explanation or left some sort of clues to where or why they left? Where they set up to fail, or just bad timing? The questions are endless, but we will never have a concrete answer yet millions of dollars and hundreds of hours are spent trying to understand...WHY? Something for you, what do you think happened to the colony? Assimilation with the natives? Left for Croatoan? Or simple starvation? Or do you have a theory of your own?...endless possibilities!

Imagine

Imagine what is was like for the 117 or so people that had uprooted their whole family and life to head to the New World. Imagine what it felt like to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a boat back in late 1500's! No luxury liner, no million dollar yacht, just a wooden ship with less than ideal standards. It was the thought of ownership, the very thought that they were to come to the New World to start a life away from what they knew. What do you think crossed their minds as they sailed for months? Was this the right choice for their families? Would it be safe? It's funny when you think about making changes in your life about what difficulties lie ahead. Yet when we think about history it's amazing to think about what their difficulties were to be. Think about the colonist, things that they had to worry about; was the land going to be able to provide enough that they would be able to provide for their families? Were the natives that they had heard about savages? Now imagine, your settled into your new colony and your called back by the Queen. Imagine the difficulties that John White was facing inside himself as he had to make the journey back and leave his daughter and her first born with the intentions to resupply then return as soon as possible. Only to be delayed by two whole years, to return to a colony that was completely deserted....just Imagine..

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