Lungshan Temple in Taipei in photos.
Category: Travel
Rika Eats Asia (Everything I ate in Taipei and Tokyo)
I ate everything I was offered in Taipei and Tokyo, and photographed it all.
The Week in Instagram Roundup – San Diego Comic Con
Hey kids, here’s the second experimental installment of my Instagram Roundup – this time covering Comic Con, and spanning from July 16 to July 23rd. I had only three days back at the house between returning from Portland and leaving for a work trip to SDCC, and I know I must have been tired, because…
The Week in Instagram + Bloglovin Roundup – Portland, Oregon Coast, and Washington
Here’s my week in Instagram pictures and Bloglovin mini-posts from Saturday July 8th to Sunday July 15th. No, that’s not exactly a week. But I’m cheating this one a little in order to make it span the entire trip to Oregon and Washington, and the wind-down day back in Dallas afterward. This was my last…
Spinster Records and Seoul Kitchen, Oak Cliff, Dallas
1. Drive down to the Green Lights of Dallas; drive past them. Over Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and past the new trolley tracks, to Davis Street – 829. Find Spinster Records illuminated on the dark end of the street, past the bars and sidewalks of Bishop Arts. 2. Walk through the open door. 3. Wander…
Japan’s Fox Village – How to Get There, What to Expect
Imagine waking up in the city of the future, boarding a train.. imagine flying like a bullet through clouds of mist that finally break to reveal mountains above green fields, all the while opening small beautiful packages and eating the mysterious foods within.. imagine arriving in a small train station, unsure of where to go…
Photoblog: Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Let’s take a walk, in a museum, on a day that its raining…
Punk Princesses and Other Familiar Oddities of Asia; Disobey Princess Jasmine OOTD
A few days ago, Fashionably Geek’s Punk Princess tees post reminded me of this alt Princess Jasmine shirt I picked up in Japan. This one is probably pushing the envelope just a little harder than the designs they featured, what with the electrical tape on the nipples and all.. (Thom actually advised me not…
Things My Cold Hard Capitalist Heart Would Miss if Our Country Lost Diversity
Have you ever lost someone, to death, or separation, or just to drifting away? Have you ever felt the enormity of that loss through a little absence of something – a coat that isn’t on its hook; the smell of a cologne that no longer hangs in the air when you wake up after he’s…
Mary, Hannah, Joan of Arc, and a Saint I Don’t Remember
When I was 16, I marched in Washington the day after the inauguration. It was the first time I flaked on a job, the first time I thought of Thom from far away, and the place that I found Hannah. There I am, lifetimes away, staring out of a picture in black and white that…
Three Pictures: The Windows of Planes
If I can access the window, I’m taking a photo out of the window. I don’t care, its still cool that we fly through the air in tin cans.
Three Pictures: Foxes in Japan
Sometimes, a theme just presents itself. Our Japan trip filled camera rolls with foxes – statues, actual live foxes, and a little origami. Picture 1: Fushimi Inari, near Kyoto, is best known for its orange-red torri gates – there are supposedly 10,000 of them – I didn’t count them, and it seems like no one…
Rika Confesses 