There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it

and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now

so for that one change me a little.

Joy and every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

I am a familiar air heart. I am a famous pilot.

More than 80 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared she still occupies a place in our imaginations.

As a girl and a woman people told me I would not be able to do things that I wanted to do like fun.

For this eight year old in New Jersey Amelia Earhart is a badass.

Listen to her voice it's filled with the same fearless enthusiasm as Amelia's.

Suddenly the details of the mystery vanish. The distress calls missing plane, the competing theories, the endless search for evidence, they all fall away.

And for a few minutes Earhart is embodied and alive before our eyes any years.

Finally understood for who she is not some lost soul but a powerful and vibrant person, a role model.

Instead of being scared she was exhilarating as she said.

In the Earhart family role models are easy to come by.

I had the privilege of traveling to Amelia's birthplace in Atchison, Kansas and speaking to one of Amelia's remarkable descendants, Amy Kleppner, Amelia's niece.

She was my mother's sister so my aunt.

And right away Amy Kleppner became a role model for me.

I've been looking over your family history and there seems to be something amazing about the women in your family.

Well I'm not sure I described them as amazing other than Amy Earhart, but she was certainly amazing.

Amy Kleppner's modesty is typical of the no nonsense Earhart women.

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