Posts in the “VOYAGES” category

SXSWANBOATING

by angeliska on March 30, 2009

Oh yes, so- SXSW roared up in a flurry of flashbulbs and new friends from all over the place! There was just SO MUCH to see and do! Try as you might, you really have to just pick and choose (…)

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Parades

by angeliska on March 1, 2009

It’s always so strange- the feeling of traveling a long way in the course of a day. A morning, and then an afternoon pass on the journey and I am hurtled across these old familiar highways back to a place (…)

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Mardi Gras, My Love

by angeliska on February 18, 2009

Sometime around midnight tonight I shall hit the road, traveling down that old familiar highway to make my pilgrimage, to celebrate my most favorite holiday- yes, darlings, it is Mardi Gras time! I never got around to sharing these photos (…)

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Lone Grove New Year

by angeliska on January 2, 2009

It’s become a New Year’s tradition for me and mine to go out to Lone Grove, a ghost-town near Llano and my ancestral home. My aunt and uncle live there now, and before them my grandparents and great-grandparents lived there. (…)

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Gypsy Honeymoon

by angeliska on December 8, 2008

Yes, and so we resume our elaborate account of San Franciscan adventures! There was just so much loveliness, it seems a shame not to share it- and if I don’t hop on it.. Bottomless oubliettes will be the fate of (…)

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SCHWARZE KATZE UND INSEKTENFRESSENDE PFLANZEN

by angeliska on November 25, 2008

On our second day in the city by the sea, we unearthed a curious creature curled up in a tree-stump. Bright dark eyes and nose a-twitch, glossy curls and black-orchid scented.. Peekaboo. We were able to lure her out with (…)

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Chinatown + Forest-Spirits

by angeliska on November 21, 2008

Returning home as always is bittersweet, and voyages are rarely long enough. Oh we tried, valiantly, to cram as much into every day (and night) as we possibly could- but still, the list was far too long! It was a (…)

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The Barbary Coast

by angeliska on November 9, 2008

On Tuesday, my sweetheart and my grandfather and I are going to San Francisco for a week! It’s strange to think that it has been nearly a year since I visited San Francisco! So much has happened in that time, (…)

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Take a walk with me..

by angeliska on May 12, 2008

This is the face of an accomplished woman. My wee jaunt to Indiana was no mere pleasure trip- (though lovely and lackadaisical in the the extreme it was indeed) the journey was occasioned by the graduation of one of my (…)

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Indianana

by angeliska on May 5, 2008

Time-machine transmogrification and too little sleep take me somewhere I’ve never been before, I fall asleep in one city and awaken in another. I finally get to visit Casa Francesca, a magical abode stuffed with wonderful books, and nooks and (…)

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