My Dad has instructed me in flying a single engine airplane as we have flown our family of six round-trip from Bedford, Massachusetts to Homer, Alaska seven times, as well as to other parts of the country. During these transcontinental trips, totaling over 500 hours, I have viewed the world from on high and traveled to some very remote places accessible only by a small airplane.

In two successive years, my brothers and I have hiked and canoed in the Gates of the Arctic National Park located in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. We have followed some of the routes of Bob Marshall, Ernie Johnson, and John Muir, legendary pioneers in this part of the world. In the process I have explored some

It was in such a secluded wilderness that my Dad, two brothers, and I built an 8' by 10' cabin using only a chainsaw, some hand tools, and the trees on a small privately owned lot surrounded by the wilderness of the Kenai Fjords National Park. It is located in South Central Alaska and accessible only by boat or floatplane. We still visit this cabin, sharing the land with the resident black and brown bears, wolverines, eagles, seals, walruses, and salmon.

In real life, I run my own computer business locally, selling and servicing computers and computer components, making webpages, and custom building business databases. Since I started this business last year, it has grown to the point where I have to turn down customers, lest my business interfere with my schoolwork. I have used a large amount of my earnings from this business to set up my own computer system. I have bought a new scanner, laser printe

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