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FALLING FACE FIRST INTO ADVENTURE

LalaSphere

LalaSphere
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Birthday
June 06
Company
www.breakingenglish.org
Bio
writer. traveler. linguaphile. perpetual explorer, fallen urbanite. Larissa was born in a plateau of volcanic earth 932 meters above sea level. She is a lover of glaciers, the beluga, travels through countries with creative plumbing, and is adamantly opposed to the bombing of the moon. She's working on a creative non-fictional piece "Breaking English," and other Super-Secret Things. She's also an emerging photographer. She accepts cookies and tips.

This weekend a young man I met decided to leave this world.  I met him only once – on a typical sunny summer day, we sailed together aboard Joe’s boat for a quick but glorious day crossing to Eagle Harbor.  Taylor was lovely, but shy and quiet – it was his… Read full post »

Almost 3 years ago, I started on a new path: flying from Seattle to the southernmost tip of South America, I embarked on a journey with a handful of pages of my family’s story and a deep, overdue desire to return to my birthplace, a country I hadn’t visited in over… Read full post »

 

One of the advantages of being sick is that one's plans are scattered to the winds, leading to unexpected surprises.  This includes sleeping poorly (leading to being up for a lovely sunrise on Jan 1), and not being able to spend a weekend hiking in the snows of Mount

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DECEMBER 31, 2010 10:07PM

New Year’s Wishes on the Eve of 2011

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by Mt Shuksan on a splendid PNW day

Ah… to survive snowpocalypses, blizzards, whiteouts and hypothermia only to find oneself properly humbled by a virus.  I had originally planned to spend the New Years with friends at a lodge at Mount Baker, but now, recently ill, it may… Read full post »

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(from my Farm Adventures one PNW summer,  part 2) -

Chicken persist in going AWOL. On the morning of Day 7, three of them meander outside the chicken fence, one of them Alpha Rooster, swaggering and crowing in decided tones of glee. From the window where I… Read full post »

 before mount Shuksanon top of the ridge framed against Mount Shuksan's sweeping glacier...  A few images from a jaunt to Artist Point (a 5.5 mile snowshoe trek with 1200' elevation gain), a viewpoint located on the Kulshan ridge in the Northern Cascades range of Washington state, affording 360 degree v… Read full post »

Farm Adventures part 1: Day 4 begins late, at 7 am. I wake up in a wash of sheets twisting about me like a cummerbund to the sound of Alpha rooster, crowing. Demanding. I pivot my legs towards the edge of a bed too expansive for One, torpid, limbs propelling me with all theRead full post »