94 SIDELINES AUGUST 2013
FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
By Kathryn Collins
Angelea Kelly Walkup grew up on the Gulf Coast of Texas in
a rural community. At that time, the options in Texas were “You
can ride western” or “You can ride western.” When she asked if
she could try dressage, Angelea said her parents and friends,
“Looked at me as if I’d sprouted a second head. So, I rode
western and enjoyed the life of a 4-H kid buying and selling my
own horses starting at age 10 and getting on anything anyone
would let me ride.”
In the‘90s, she bought a one-way bus ticket and move to
Oregon, where she fell madly in love with the land and eclectic
people that inhabited it. She embraced her studies and received
her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Southern
Oregon University.
Angelea then played a role in the dotcom boom of the late ‘90s,
working with one of the original social networking companies
fortuitously destined to be acquired by Yahoo, Inc. She’s lived
all over the United States, in Spain and Holland and traveled
throughout Europe, the Middle East and the South West Pacific.
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Meet Angelea
Kelly Walkup
Angelea Kelly Walkup with So Hot Hansel
Photo by Michael Tackett
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