barondave: (Default)
barondave ([personal profile] barondave) wrote2006-01-13 11:40 am
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Postcard from Palmer

Just got the postcard mailed from Palmer Station in Antarctica... December 5. And that one went through Denver! I was, I think, the only one on the expedition to send postcards from Palmer. Nice to know that they're finally here. So far, of the non-US postcards, only two have arrived. Only the one mailed from Ushuaia Argentina on Dec. 6 took less than a months: Received Dec. 27. When they said cards might not get there until Easter, they weren't kidding.

Fortunately, I waited until getting back to Miami to mail the majority of post cards.
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[identity profile] bonz-lizard.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Our postcard postmarked from Palmer arrived yesterday. Way cool! Thank you.

[identity profile] barondave.livejournal.com 2006-01-16 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad it finally made it! I didn't send many from non-US places, largely because I knew it would take so long. Even the ones finally mailed in Denver took a while to get up here.

[identity profile] ntrlstgrl.livejournal.com 2006-01-13 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's cool that you sent postcards back to yourself. One of my recent favorite books is based on the author sending herself postcards while she was taking a year to live in Europe. She used the cards to remind herself of her adventures while she was there, and in the book the postcards are included at the beginning of each chapter. Very fun to read and created an "I want to be Alice Steinbach" feeling. Without Reservations: the Travels of an Independent Woman is the name of the book, by the way, and I highly recommend it.

[identity profile] barondave.livejournal.com 2006-01-16 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Several places allowed you to send postcards, but we weren't told beforehand. The expedition was somewhat ad hoc, depending on weather and incidental happenings. It was, we were told, very unusual to visit both Palmer Station and Vernadsky Station. I managed to mail postcards from both, but since we technically couldn't use either postal service I had to make due.

As for the postcards as travelogue: Yeah, I did a bit of that when I went to Europe in the 70s as a student. This time, I had a laptop and could use the net to find the ship's itinerary. What a difference 30 years makes!

I've been putting the postcards I sent myself on the refridgerator. Some things don't change.
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only