Sally (Sarah) Sprague (Vanucci:  

Hello my fellow Tosa East alum! I didn’t get to know very many of you well back then. I was busy with school, a PT job, boyfriends, and surviving and learning about life. (Weren’t we all). I did a road trip age 19 and discovered beautiful Arizona along the way. So I moved there with 3 suitcases and a guitar. Met a great guy, had my precious daughter and had a very full fun 17 years in Flagstaff, AZ, which was a small (then) mountain town at the base of the San Francisco peaks. I became an avid outdoorswoman, backpacking, skiing, river rafting in the Grand Canyon and other SW rivers. I co-opened a Women’s Bookstore with my baby girl on my hip! I had an absolutely great life there in my 20s and 30s. I traveled the world quite a bit back then. Spent a few months in SE Asia backpacking and trekking in Nepal, making the long and scary (for me) trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp. That was 1986, before the boom of tourist climbers which has led to so many deaths. Spent time in SW China, Burma (now Myanmar, a military dictatorship at the time, thank goodness for my naivete or I would never have gone there and would have missed out on some of the oldest decaying temples, breathtaking!), Thailand (the people were so kind, loved Koh Samui, could have stayed there forever!) I’ve also backpacked at Denali National Park in Alaska, the Continental Divide in the lower Rockies, Yellowstone, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Canyonlands and way down into Mexico. Living in Flagstaff from 1975-1991, I was introduced to whitewater rafting by my hiking companion boyfriend at the time who worked for Hatch River Company in Utah. That started a decade long love affair with the Grand Canyon. I rowed my own raft through the Canyon on an 18 day trip that turned me from a young woman with many fears and insecurities into a warrior! I got hired on by a commercial rafting company taking touris...Expand for more