Hi, I’m Amanda, and I’m a sixth grader at the Santa Barbara Middle School.

Traveling is in my blood. My dad was a travel journalist and my mom was a model, so both of them got a lot of traveling in their lives. At the age of 1 my parents took me to Minnesota and New York. At the age 5 I traveled in Paris and at 7 & 8 I went to Italy two summers in a row, and last summer I even traveled 13,000 miles around the country and hiked up a 10,000 foot divide on a 3 day hiking expedition in Wyoming.