He tied his boat off and started to climb the cliffs. He knew that no one had lived to tell what was behind the cloud, but he climbed. John was a man of "Do it now, or never" attitude. Every adventure that past buy his head he was going do it. There was no one in earth that will convince him other wise. No matter how dangerous it was, he did not care the risk nor what will happen before, in between and after this crazy adventure.

John Rodriguez was a young man with only 21 years living. He was an outstanding guy with a grate personality and a great future. When john was 15 years old he came to discover that he had cancer, the doctors told him he did not have much to time to live. john was very devastative and fell into a great depression for like almost a year, but me as his crazy older sister always had the right ideal of how to make him smile or happy. We both realized that he had not time left so i decided to propose to him to make all his dream come true no matter how crazy they were we will do it!

i remember our first trip was to Africa, he wanted to go crazy ones we got there. That's where he wanted to go. we took pictures and live out of nature for at least 3 year. His favorite animals were monkeys, he loved living with monkeys and always feeding them, it was like him and this monkey he named Joan were best friend we even took the monkey back home with us. The only thing he did not like about our trip was that he couldn’t get close to lions, he loved lions I remember him saying "Yesica, lions are the king of the kingdom and one day i will be the king of my kingdom." smart kid ill say, but for john Just seeing them was enough satisfy so he can take pictures of them. one crazy thing we was able to do was ride an elephant. My dear brother loved the movie Tarzan so ever sense he was small he wanted to be like him as well so that’s what we did we lived that Tarzan life.

December 26, the day after Christmas was his birthday and every year the family would give him different supplies cause they new he was an explore. so every year he enjoyed. I remember that one birthday he came up to me and he said "Yesica, i want to climb that mountain that nobody has ever lived to tell the story" My reaction was horrify , i rejected i refused to loose my brother sooner then ever. But there was nobody to stopped him i had promise to take him too make his dream come true. I told him i was going to go with him and he said no its to much for me and that incase he did not come back he wanted me to live and go on with my future. something about that day left me with a drought and worried.

few months past and me and him planned to go to mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world were many tried climbing but never came down to tell .ones we got there we peddled in a boat to were it is he said this trip will take him about 3 to four week, so i waited those 3-4 week down at the bottom of this mountain. before we left i found john saying his finals good-bye as if he was leaving for ever, i even remember him telling out little twin sister Nathalie and Angelica to promise to always stick together and love each other trough everything, i cried a little.

so we went on...

He tied his boat off and started to climb the cliffs. He knew that no one had lived to tell what was behind the cloud, but he climbed. i waited a few weeks and no signs of john i waited 5 weeks more than a month. i was getting worried so ask for help. by the time help came my brother came down and sat on the floor hugged me and whisper in my ears and said "i love you and thank you for everything." and there he was in my arms no more words to be said, breathing his final breath ,just holding a camera.