Connecting the World with #LinkingPostcards

After a long, long way and time, another real world postcard was in my mailbox yesterday. It came all the way from New Zealand and guess what it included? ... a wonderful piece of art from snapper | creations To learn more about the artist behind snapper | creations, you may want to visit her profile at Happier Place  under the following link: Maire Thompson (Photographer in Ashhurst, New Zealand) . For even more please visit her profile on Facebook  or on Google + . She's got some impressive photographic work on display there and if interested you should visit her website . My favorite section is the Postcard Gallery . And there was another surprise in the letter I received: my absolute favorite card from her  postcard gallery Maire is such an impressive and creative artist! # SheInspiresMe The pair of # LinkingPostcards was created with one of my Christmas Cards, I specially created for sending out real Cards for Christmas, too. What she posted, when

14 h 30 min just flight time, driving not yet included The most beautiful surprise was receiving a handwritten Christmas Card from Angel and Vilma Delgadillo and their daughter Clarissa. Thank you so much. It really means a lot to me, especially the handwritten message of your father. The very first person I met and talked to on the Mother Road was the Angel of Route 66, the person who made all this possible, the one who started the initiative of Historic Route 66 - Angel Delgadillo . Our smiles stretch from Chicago to LA ...  I was so excited to meet him. I knew Angel from a documentary about Route 66 that was broadcast on German TV, but at that time my knowledge about the Mother Road was very poor. What I knew was, that without him, Route 66 would not exist anymore. I felt so honored to meet your father on my first road trip along Route 66, the Angel and Father of Historic Route 66. And just seeing him in front of me, made me forget everything. Two years later, we stop

let's get started We met all the people shown in the above collage along our journey between Chicago and Santa Monica. Quite a few of them we met at the Springfield Route 66 Festival in Missouri , others in their businesses or somewhere along the road. Some of them we knew from previous journeys but many of them, we knew only from our common digital world, whom we finally met in person on the Road. We met artists, authors, business owners, enthusiasts and we had a great time with every single of them. Friends you make on Route 66 will always be " friends for life " - as Gary Turner from the Gay Parita Sinclair Station on Route 66 in Missouri used to say. May he rest in peace. So sad he died before we could meet him in person. When we arrived at the End of the Trail at Santa Monica Pier, the RoadBook that was signed by the people we met, showed over 45 new entries. Wonderful memories of this unforgettable RoadTrip 2017 which we wanted to share with all of them.

A few statistical figures Route 66 Special added to #LinkingPostcards They all can be included - they just have to send a card in return to my card. Started on March 1, 2017 . We created 8 # LinkingPostcardsPairs , we connected 4 continents (Europe, NorthAmerica, Asia, Australia and Oceania) and 7 countries (Germany, USA, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Romania, Austria and India) so far. Please see the # LinkingPostcardsMap I sent out 20 cards from the # LinkingPostcards collection, but only 8 pairs were created (12 cards without pairs, so far). I got a very lovely parcel from India and it seems that the parcel (actually a large lined envelope) I sent in return never reached its destination. PLEASE DO NOT SEND any PARCEL in the future anymore The # LinkingPostcards project is about sending printed picture postcards  the old fashioned way. I will not send any parcel in return anymore . Will also send to Guru Dutt a # LinkingPostcards CARD to complete this # Linkin

Happy New Year! - Ein frohes neues Jahr! Photographic Review 2017 ...   

The beginning of our RoadTrip 2017 was in Chicago at this wonderful place in Grant Park - the Buckingham Fountain - 

Going on a long trip across the USA The planning of the road trip is almost completed and the day we start our journey is getting closer with every day that passes. We had to change our complete route back - some road closures, fire hazards in some areas along the road, and the chosen route is too long for two weeks. The output of the route length was in Miles and I was calculating with kilometers ... thus we have to shorten our itinerary and will have to leave some areas for another trip. Which also means, we're going to get back ...

Kloster Seeon, Chiemgau, Bavaria Was already sent to Albergo Pradat  in Corvara , Alta Badia in South Tyrol on April 1, 2017. No answer so far, not even a private note or mail ... feeling sad for this, as this is one of our  favorite hotels in South Tyrol.

special moments - in a special place -  with special people That is our favorite little hotel in Styria, Austria: das onkel fritz  am Semmering, in the neighborhood of the UNESCO World Heritage, Semmering Railway . Thank you  Fam. Rottenschlager for taking part at my initiative of # LinkingPostcards ... Magic Mountain Flair around the Semmering ...  20 Schilling Bill before 2002 Specially created for #LinkingPostcards this wonderful scene from the Magic Mountain along the Semmering Railway. This place is on the favorite hiking tour of the Rottenschlager Family, who own our favorite little romantic hotel, and take every spare minute to get out into nature. The motive on the # LinkingPostcard used to be once on the reverse of a 20 Schilling bill (Austrian official currency before the Euro) - see left hand side picture. The card I selected for sending them, is a quiet and relaxing place on my favorite lake: Chiemsee. I selected this card to send to them, because