Category: Mail

This postcard has a bunch of fun things: map, landscape picture, state symbols, including the syringa. It even lists all the symbols on the back. The list includes the state dance, but I see no picture of square dancing on the front.

This would be a good postcard for Postcrossing.

Sara reports that she’s writing from the lake where the wind is gusting and that isn’t good for fire season.

This excellent history of the Bermuda short was bought in Bermuda and (I think) posted there on July 26. It’s got a US postmark, which I think was a weird thing Sara and I discussed.

Sara reports that she and Shawn poked around in shops, took a long walk, and rode the ferry to the Dock District. There was also rain.

Sara writes from Spirit Lake and observes that there is no date indicating when the pictures on the postcard were taken, but some of the views depicted are very different.

She says that her perch at Spirit Lake includes not just a nice view, but tea and a gentle breeze.

I will note that in the space below the warning DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE, the USPS has perfectly centered the barcode. Well done!

Sara reports that this postcard came from a store at Boise Towne Square while she was shopping with her mom. (We had walked around the mall when I was there and pointed at the spots where certain stores used to be.)

She also reported that the Starbucks where she was writing the postcard was playing Bananarama and other oldies from the 80s.

Sara sent this postcard to commemorate that we have successfully navigated our 30-year reunion. It was indeed fun to go to our old haunts together. We are so rarely in Boise at the same time.

These two postcards arrived while I was in Boise, sent by Sara, the same person I saw in Boise. Sara reports that she was feeling cheeky that day (ha ha), and that she and Shawn enjoyed a nice dinner at the Cafe Luxembourg (everyone was clothed) before going to the ballet.

Sara wrote this postcard on the way to Bermuda but it came back with her to be mailed in New York City. While at the Strand, she bought many picture books which she then hauled to Bermuda, back to NYC, to Boise, and then back home.

Purchases aside, she said that she hadn’t been in the Strand, and that it was magical.

Zoe sent me this same Strand postcard in January.

Sara sent this postcard from Neeeewwww Yorrrkkkk Cittttyyyy???? where she had a lovely lunch. Let’s see what other postcards Sara sends from her long trip.

But not made by Midwesterners!

Sara says that this postcard cracks her up, and I agree. She sent me looking for where Boise was placed on the map.

As someone who lived in New England and encountered constant confusion about where, exactly Idaho was, geographically (not to mention the size of the state capital) , I find there is much to enjoy about this postcard.

Raygun never ceases to delight.

Sara sent this Paul Bunyan postcard from her time in Minnesota and suggested in a multiverse scenario, we could travel to all the Paul Bunyan roadside attractions in the US. She suggested the name of our trip should be Summer of PB.

I’m game. Now we just need to access that multiverse scenario.

Sara suggested that this postcard was a message that I should procure myself some Salt and Straw. (I did not procure myself some Salt and Straw.)

She also sent this very pretty Rivers of Idaho postcard with the message that we would both be in Idaho soon. At the same time. Stay tuned for those pictures.