Category: Mail

Sara’s date on this postcard was September 29. I can’t read the date on the postmark, so I can’t tell if it maybe got lost in the mailbox for a time before winding its way to me more than two months later. What stories do you have to tell, postcard? Why was your journey so long?

Sara reports that visiting Innsbruck, they added a fourth to their tally of Winter Olympic cities. They had fun exploring.

At the time of writing, the official walk/hike that was the purpose of the trip hadn’t happened yet, but it was imminent. She thought it would be a 5K. I think it turned out to be more like a 7K.

I really enjoyed this stamp.

Sara reports that she always stops at Chalo while in SFO, and I got this postcard because of it.

She reports that all of her meetings that day had been canceled, so she was working from home.

In other news, my camera has a setting where it will take a picture, but also give you seven other picture layouts. I have never used this setting voluntarily, but sometimes the dial is flipped and I end up on that setting. Here’s the square close-up version.

I can think of at least one time when this accidentally happened and I kept one of the seven generated photos. It was one of Matt’s races and it did the Kodachrome-type filter that looked great.

But mostly? An unused feature.

Sara was in Columbus for the NCTE conference and found her way to the Book Loft of German Village.

She said it was a dream bookstore. She also managed to come home with only two books. Such restraint, especially with 32 rooms!

Sara sends a hello along with this very pretty postcard.

This was a speedy delivery postcard having been written on 10/22/23. Two days? The postmark isn’t helpful; it must have evaded Eureka’s system because it has a smudgy Portland postmark. Oh wait! She sent this from Newport, where she and Shawn were visiting family. Mystery solved.

Sara reports that they had both fog and drizzle and also a sunny day and that both were appreciated.

These may have arrived over two days, but I got them all on the same day when I got home from Boise.

Here’s another great blood bank postcard; it seems to have been mauled in the mail. Sara was about to have her first teaching event in three weeks due to her autumn trip to Europe.

Speaking of her autumn Europe trip, this very French postcard came from Paris and was posted on 10/11/23. Sara reports that Paris has been great, although very warm, which she was not expecting given that it was October.

This postcard was written in Munich on 10/1/23. The German international postal system seems to be slower than the French. Sara enjoyed Octoberfest being in full swing. She said that dirndls and lederhosen were on full display.

This postcard was written on 10/4/23 (and so perhaps the rural French postal system is not as speedy as Paris?). Sara reports that the fam, minus she and her dad, went to the market pictured in the upper right. It is apparently 15 minutes away from the family house.

It’s so very handy when they put the hard-to-spell name right there on the front of the card.

Sara sent it on 10/8 from the Limoges train station. She said that time with her family was restful and relaxing.

Sara wrote this on 10/2 on the train between Munich and Paris, which was zipping along at 200 miles per hour. They were on to the family home in France.

It would be great to have 200 mph trains connecting US cities…

Two postcards from Sara arrived today.

Sara sends greetings from Austria with this picture of the gorgeous hotel they were staying in. Look at the fun stamps that came with it:

The postcard was dated 9/26/23. That’s a reasonable amount of days for an Austria to Portland, Oregon journey.

Sara bought this postcard in Paris, but sent it from Arcata. You will note the postmark on the front. There is also one on the back. It’s in the opposite corner from the stamp.