Amelia Earhart love to be swept away on adventures
The next thing on the list of interesting facts about Amelia Earhart, known as Mellie as a child, loved to be swept away on adventures. In Kansas City, Missouri, her father was a lawyer who worked for the Rock Island Railroad. Amelia got to travel all over the country and see amazing sights as the daughter of a railroad employee.
Amelia went to the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, when she was seven years old. She was inspired by a roller coaster there and decided to build her own. She enlisted the assistance of her younger sister, Muriel, also known as Pidge. To grease the tracks, Mellie and Pidge gathered planks, a wooden box, and a tub of lard. Their roller coaster was built on the roof of a tool shed. Amelia went on the first ride—and crashed. Despite the bruises, she enjoyed the experience and described it to Pidge as "flying."
Amelia first saw an airplane when she was ten years old. It was at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. "It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting," she commented.
Another plane she saw was a little more thrilling. She and a friend went to a flying exposition in Toronto, Canada, around 1918. He suddenly dove right at them while they were watching a pilot perform stunts.“I am sure he said to himself, ‘Watch me make them scamper,’” Amelia recalled. She stood her ground as the plane flew by.
