Eight-year-old Maya and her parents were on vacation. They were walking in the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachians are a group of mountains in North America.
Maya's family were walking on a long, long road. Its name is the Appalachian Trail. It starts in the US state (州) of Maine and ends in the state of Georgia. Maya and her family started near their home in Maryland. This was Maya's first time to leave her state. After walking for some days, the family decided to take rest (休息) in West Virginia.
Every evening, Maya and her family would make a campfire. She loved to dance around it. She also enjoyed sleeping in a tent each night. Maya wanted to remember everything interesting on her vacation and she had her special way to do that-drawing. For example, when she came across new animal, she would take out her pencil quickly.
Maya learned that she had to be quiet if she wanted the animals to stay. She also drew lot of flowers. Maya thought that flowers were much easier to draw, because they didn't run away!
