See and Experience Journal

Konnor Drewen

2/12/011

Greens

            If I could travel to someplace in the United States I would go to Los Alamos, New Mexico. That is one of the sites of the Manhattan Project. The Project was started by Albert Einstein when he signed the famous Einstein–Szilárd letter. I have always been interested in WW II weapon technology and that would be an experience for me. If you were not sure, the Manhattan Project was the government funded development of the first atomic bomb. A common misconception is that the Manhattan Project was not done in Manhattan. The reason that I am interested in this and want to go there is because I am interested in physics and I wanted to know how it works. It would not be too difficult to get there.

            The way I could get there is to take a plane from Washington D.C. to Albuquerque. From there I would drive to Los Alamos. The weather in Los Alamos is usually sunny but it can be cloudy, or anything else. The only thing that I would need for this trip is clothes and normal luggage. The things that I would like to see are of course the no longer functioning military facility. Other than that I would like to meet some of the local people and see what they are like.

Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer is a award winning non-fiction author who has written five books. He has written over a dozen magazine articles though. He has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Rolling Stone and others. Where Men Win Glory, his latest book  he tells the story of Pat Tillman, the NFL player who joined the Army and died in Afghanistan. He has also written other books like Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. He is also the editor of  the Modern Library Exploration series. He is married and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a book about a boy who travels for two years after graduation. He travels to Alaska and lives in the wilderness for 119 days. He lived on berries and roots. He also shot wild game like moose. While he was trying to get to the coast he fell asleep in a bus. He awoke to the bus trapped by a melted river and  he unfortunatly died.