Amid the farms of North Dakota lived an incredibly intelligent chicken with a farmer and his family. Truly Gertrude McCluck was a clever fowl. Loving her much because she was the only hen that could read, write, and talk, the farmer was determined to make her exceptionally famous. Nevertheless Gertrude was very busy trying to enter a writing contest about extraordinary chickens.

Wishing to go to Hawaii for vacation and knowing Gertrude's unusual abilities, the farmer resolved to take Gertrude McCluck as well! For the next couple of days Gertrude, who was awfully busy packing, found it was hard to get time to write. She only managed to scratch down a few notes for the contest. Obviously she was hoping that there would be plenty of time in Hawaii to write.

While in Hawaii, Gertrude McCluck's fame grew to new unprecedented heights for a chicken. She became the first fowl ever to scuba dive! At Pearl Harbor, which was an incredible memorial to the heroes of World War II, Gertrude wondered what happened to the poultry the day of the attack, December 7, 1941. She also went to Mount Kohala, whose volcanic landscape was incredibly striking, not at all like North Dakota. Truly the blackish-red rocks looked like asteroids and the mount was as desolate as the moon.

Between all the sightseeing and interviews with the press, poor Gertrude had no time to even scratch down a paragraph for the essay contest.