Tag: postcrossing

A few days later, card 2 of 2 arrived.

Aside from news about the realtor and dealing with the house in Minneapolis, she also reports of looking for places to rent in their future home of Arcata.

Card 1 of 2 arrives first! Win!

Apparently, these postcards come with the bill at the restaurant! Sara tells of their realtor visiting and making staging recommendations.

Sorry for the blurry photo. It might be my middle-aged eyes, it might be lack of attention to detail.

Sara uses a postcard of Union Station in Washington D.C. to remind me that I’ve got this. As in: YOU’VE GOT THIS! Also to let me know that the stamp was the last of her hummingbird postcard stamps, which she had to augment with a 1-cent stamp because the price had gone up and those hummingbird stamps weren’t Forever stamps.

She sent this postcard from Sweet Science Ice cream to update me on their weekend, which was quite busy, but not with church. (!) Also, the realtor team was coming over that morning. The house sale begins in earnest!

In postcard 2/2, Sara reports that a lady at the winery pointed her and Shawn in the right direction to find gifts for the family. We shall see what all that means when postcard 1/2 arrives.

She’s also been working at setting good task lists for the upcoming move.

Postcard 1/2 arrived the day after 2/2, as they are known to do.

Here we find out that the winery tip was to go to this town in Wisconsin. They did not partake in outdoor sports, but did do shopping for family and friends’ gifts.

I would have been all over that lake. I miss lakes.

Nice design. I also like Trempealeau’s tagline is “A mecca for outdoor sports on Wisconsin’s West Coast.” Perhaps I should plan a visit.

Update: it seems that might be the Mississippi, not a lake.

It’s a dispatch from the frontline of dissertation land. As she wrote this postcard, she was two weeks away from her deadline.

She says “I want to be done” twice in the space of this postcard and ends, “Ah well, to the last push!”

Sara sent me these postcards, which both arrived on the same day, miracle of miracles. They are promo cards for a coffee delivery subscription her husband received for Christmas.

She had a plan to perhaps pass them off as some quick exotic travel, but that plan was thwarted by the information on the back about the coffee beans from the regions.

Her plan would have also been thwarted by her many social media updates about the writing of her dissertation, which is due soon. This work doesn’t lend much to the Secret International Travel Narrative.

They are nicely-designed postcards that made it through the mail mostly unscathed.

It’s been a few days, but the final three postcards arrived today. This was numbers 1, 9, and 14. I could finally read the whole message!

Six postcards arrived today, but I only took pictures of five of them. now I have 2–8, and 10–13. I’m only missing three.

Five postcards arrived today! Unfortunately, they were out of a series of 14. I got numbers 5, 6, 7, 11, and 12. I will stay tuned for the next set.

Sara reports all 14 went into the mailbox at the same time.