Postcard from Palmer

[barondave]

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.

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[barondave.livejournal.com]

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.