Tania Larson - Writing

Travel Writing:
La Tomatina
Painting the town red

(TNT Magazine, United Kingdom, July 29, 2002, Issue 987)

It's a simple principal, you've known it since toddler-hood: there's something rewarding about flinging food hard and fast at a deserving foe. Your mother and grade school teachers didn't appreciate the glory of the game, but somewhere in southern Spain they understand. Over the course of the past 58 years, the food fight has been taken to a new level -- La Tomatina, a festival in the small town of Buñol, now gathers roughly 20,000 people from all over the world to bash their fellow man (and woman) with 150,000kg of that delectable, red fruit, the tomato. full article

Enchanted Rock
(March, 2000 The Edge of Austin)
Out in the middle of nowhere, Texas, a few miles north of Fredericksburg, stands a gigantic batholith that reaches 325 feet above Shady Creek, which flows around its base. Until it was discovered that the creaking noises from the rock were merely the sounds of the rock contracting as it cools, the geological phenomenon was thought to be enchanted by spirits. full article

How To:
Learning to Water Ski
(April, 2000 The Edge of Austin)
If you have lived in Central Texas for any amount of time, you know things are about to get uncomfortably, or for some, even unbearably warm outside. With the danger of dehydration and heat exhaustion this can put a damper on many outdoor activities. Fortunately, the Austin area is home to a number of large bodies of water.

Here are some tips too get started in the refreshingly cool sport of waterskiing. full article

Health:
Asthmatics Outdoors
(May, 2000 The Edge of Austin)
Breathing in that fresh, pollen-filled, country air . . . and continuing up the hillside

Looking up the Central Texas hillside just a moment ago, it didn't look so steep. The beautiful spring afternoon seemed perfect for a day of adventure in the Great Outdoors. Mother Nature seemed to be smiling through crystal blue skies and the brightly colored faces of wildflowers.

Now the flowers mock every struggled step and the whistling wind isn't the sound of a gentle breeze rustling through the trees, but the sound of tortured lungs trying to expel air through the swollen airways of an asthma attack. full article

UT Water Ski Team:
The SKY is warming up with the rising sun,
the WATER is glistening orange,
and there's only ONE other skier between you
and a chance to CUT through a lake of GLASS.

What could be BETTER except maybe to move the hour
to say, AFTER you get out of class?
On the UT Water Ski Team you practice only when YOU want to,
but with a PRIVATE lake and great company,
we're sure you'll WANT to!
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The Edge of Austin:
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and the you that you could be,
there is a line
that separates existing and living,
that challenges you
to face your fears
and cross them,
that makes you choose
between cowardice and courage.

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