October 2010
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My Snailr postcards arrived! - gilest →
Another! Hurray!
Snailr by name...
I must apologise for my quietness on the snailr front. People are still recieving cards - although I’m aware many haven’t arrived at all. Which is sucky beacuse a) I know I sent one to every one of the 160+ people on my list and b) I got so panicky about getting postcards into mailboxes when I got the opportunity/found a mailbox near a station that I forgot to put the small number...
All the way from the US of A | Nose in a book →
Hurray! And still they arrive. Blimey, these are taking a while.
Beleaguered Squirrel: Slow →
A beautiful post detailing the confusion that is created when you decide not to write your name (or any identifying thing) on your postcards…
September 2010
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Dame lo que quiero: Snailr Project (or I am quite... →
A postcard that went ALL THE WAY TO INDIA.
This was very exciting for me. AND for the recipient, as it turned out, so happy happy happy all round.
The snail mail rail trail - meish dot org: life,... →
My lovely sister posts her picture of her card, and is lovely.
Monkeys in Space » Blog Archive » Snailr 73 →
We’re NUMBER ONE! Says some bank in Minnesota on card 73…
The Snailr Project - Postcard 91 - Doing it Wrong →
A postcard recieved by Missing in Iraq…
WatchCows on the road, glacier park, Montana | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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“Upstairs was once a noisy brothel; a couple of barflies have apparently turned...”
– Ernestine and Hazel’s - Esquire
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WatchFOR GOD’S SAKE, boys, WEAR UNDERWEAR
The end of Ole Miss v Tulane at the Superdome, New Orleans
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“Going to an American football game. Realise it is referred to as ‘a...”
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“has arrived in New Orleans, found her AMAZING rental flat, had incredible foods...”
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“To all catching up, it was a v boring (thankfully) train crash event - and all...”
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“I and the semi-articulated truck we just ploughed through at 65mph would like to...”
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“Apologies in advance to whoever will be recieving the snailr postcard customised...”
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Things to do
When not writing postcards, or writing about writing postcards, or writing the wittery bits to go between the postcards, I have been concerning myself with Things To Do.
Seeing as we’ll need to preserve phone batteries for important matters like phoning accommodation between the trains and letting them know by just how many HOURS we’ll be delayed in arrival that particular day, we...
August 2010
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The super-electronic-magic-book-gizbot →
For the journey, my travelling companion - and, well, general companion really - made the clever decision to buy a magical tiny book that will take the place of the several dozen books we were otherwise thinking of taking for reading and research etc. And one of the funnest jobs on my list for the next week is trying to decide on what I might like to read for fun, and what might help with the...
stamps and cents and pennies and buttons →
Some people who emailed requesting postcard updates expressed an interest in helping out with the costs of postage etc, and while this is absolutely not a requirement, or ever part of the initial plan, it was something people mentioned, so it is now there. Yay for the niceness of people for asking, whatever happens to it.
The Snailr Project (from little.red.boat ) →
A longer explanation of the shorter explanation below. This is getting a bit meta.
The Snailr Project: in brief(ish)
Basic Premise:
So much of the early evolution of travel writing was in the form of collected letters home to family or loved ones. We now communicate in shorter, punchier ways, and the idea of the travelogue or documenting a journey is affected by that. I like the idea of taking the idea of describing what you’re seeing directly to one other person, and combining it with the idea of social...
“@bobbiejohnson the thing which I like most about the snailr thing is that you...”
– Twitter / Jason Ramasami: @bobbiejohnson the thing w …
This was sent to bojo on twitter. It’s so true it made me cry. Fact.
It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.
Said the dummy text at the top of the tumblr page while I played around with a theme. For a journey of this length, of this ponderousness, and of the type that I have been wanting to do for so, so long, I can’t think of a better beginning.