Plain postcard stock, ready for customising (by Anna Pickard)

I got my stock of postcards printed from these people - they’re a local (to me) company with a good reputation and who offered a good quality matte finish postcard made from part-recycled stock. They were fast, they were cheap, they were easy to use. Hurray for PS printers.

Why print them up rather than buy postcards as I go? Partly because I’m not sure I’m going to be able to buy as many as I need of the specific places I need - sure, I could buy a stack in New Orleans, but they’ll all be of New Orleans, which isn’t much use when you’re on a train in Buttfucknowhere, MN and get an inspiration to send a mini-travel-story to someone. 

Also, I’m really hoping I can collect the images of them together and print them up somewhere as a whole, and didn’t want to worry about copyright issues with any photos on the front of store-bought postcards.

So what I’ve ended up with is a very plain map outline, with the route mapped out and the name of the project, so I can easily mark exact where I am along the route (with gps data, possibly) and lots of white space to draw pictures or stick bits of ticket or other light memorabilia to the front of the card.  Shoudl work out ok, I think.  Lovely quality on the printing, anyway. And LOTS.

Yay!