Irrelevance Glorified

Do you ever have a hard time figuring out where to go for vacation? In this day and age, vacation days are few and far between, and if you have the two-body problem, scheduling can become even more sketchy. With such demands, you need to make things count. A mediocre vacation is worse than no vacation at all! If you’re not going to go all out, just go ahead and send me the money you would have spent on airfare, and just sleep for a week. You’ll come out ahead.

But where to go? At first glance, the possibilities seem endless. Well, I’m always here to help. First of all, 2/3 of the world is covered by water. Unless you like to swim and have a large supply of shark repellent, I would recommend visiting places on land. So that cuts it down quite a bit. Secondly, you should always be broadening your horizons. And, it’s a known fact^* that the best way to broaden your horizon is to send me a postcard from a place that I don’t have a postcard from.

“But Ranjeet”, you ask devotingly, “how do I know what postcards you have?”

“Stop being so impatient”, I will respond condescendingly. “Check my Flickr page“.

Yes, I’ve added a new set to my Flickr connection, again the address is

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranjeetrao/sets/72157607401290658/

To better serve you, you can check out the Map page by clicking here. Unfortunately, it only shows 21 pictures at a time on the map, but hopefully I can change that.

For the most part, I keep all postcards I get, so here is about 70 postcards that I’ve received since 1991 or so. I’ve cheated and included postcards that I’ve bought myself (mostly because a lot of postcards show picture angles that I can’t achieve with my own camera), but that still counts because at least I’ve traveled to the place that I bought the postcard for.

If you’ve ever sent me a postcard, there’s a chance that you might recognize some of the items. And if you don’t recognize something, maybe you should be spending less time on the internet and more time sending me postcards.

I look forward to your contributions, and your praise.

Update
Sara’s comment suggests that I narrow it down even further than I have already done so. So, here are some suggestions:

• Any place on the continents of Australia, Africa, or Antarctica. Mad props if you mail me a postcard from Antarctica.
• Someplace from Mainland China, like Shanghai or Beijing
• Iceland, Greenland, or Scandinavia
• Toronto
• India
• Danville, IL

^*this is not a well known fact

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