Friday, March 6, 2009

DeKalb County, Illinois

Here's the final update for this stack, from DeKalb County, Illinois. Thank you so much McGees! I love getting postcards from new fans :) Just like with Stark County, I'm surprised how many DeKalb counties there are. This is one of six DeKalb Counties in America!


Port Isabel (Cameron County), Texas

Here's another one from my favorite wedding photographers, Ever After Images. It's good to know you branch out to other cities! I'm going to assume you sent this from Port Isabel (not Corpus) during your downtime. Port Isabel is in Cameron County, Texas (way down at the bottom tip of Texas). Thanks for the postcard!


Enterprise (Coffee County), Alabama.

Here's an unsigned one, but it has my signature pre-printed address on it, so I'm guessing it's from Mom. I was just in Coffee County (along with every other county in Alabama) last weekend. Of course I didn't have much time for sightseeing!


Covington (Kenton County), Kentucky

Here's one from Big Dave, who crossed the river to Kentucky to send me this Cincinnati-area postcard. This is actually the second Cincinnati Chili postcard I've received! I'm going to have to give it a try sometime. I wonder which recipe is better!


Stark County, Ohio

Here's one from my long-time contributor, Scott in Philly (in Ohio). Pro football hall of fame, eh? I wonder if Dan's ever been there...

Oddly enough, when checking the spelling, I found there are actually three Stark Counties in the U.S. The others are in Illinois and North Dakota. Was Mr. Stark famous for something?


Clinch County, Georgia

And there's the woman who raised me, my mother! This swamp looks like an exciting place ;) Looks like the postcard got a little ruffled in transit :(


Pinellas County, Florida

Here's an actual commercial postcard from my Mom! I had no idea Florida was home of the Sponge Capitol of the world. Neat!


Webster (Sumter County), Florida

Here's another one from my parents in Webster, Florida, visiting the Webster Flea Market in Sumpter County. Looks like fun! I wonder if these people knew they were going to be put on a postcard on the internet :)


Cairo (Grady County), Georgia

Another from my parents from Grady County, Georgia. Did you actually do the Rattlesnake Roundup, guys?


Echols County, Georgia

Here's another from my parents, with indisputable proof that they were in Echols County, Georgia.


Pasco County, Florida

Here is a home-made card from my parents from when they went on their road trip to Florida for Christmas. This one is for Pasco County, Florida. Looks like a fun walk!


Orange County, Florida

Here's another from my fan, Sarah, over at http://2pawsdesigns.blogspot.com. I'm surprised that I don't have Orange County, Florida yet, since it's such a hot tourist spot! Thanks Sarah!


Brussels, Belgium

Here's another one from Chandra from Brussels, Belgium. I've already done the research for Belgium and found the county-equivalents are called provinces. Brussels is an oddity when it comes to provinces. It doesn't belong to one! It's comparable to the District of Columbia in the United States. Since I counted the District of Columbia as a county, I'll county Brussels as a province (even though it's technically not). Thanks Chandra!



Venice (Venezia Provinca), Italy

Time for a long overdue postcard update, yay! This first one is from my high school friend that now lives in Europe. Looks like she went to Carnevale in Venice, Italy. Since a provinca (or province) is an administrative division just above a municipality, we'll go with that. Venice is in the Venice (or Venezia) region of Italy, on the northeast side. Thanks Chandra!

Friday, October 31, 2008

Agra (Agra District), India

Here's one from Darcey, a new fan :) This is the Taj Majal, in Agra. It looks like India is broken down into states, then districts, then again into tahsils. Then each tahsil is broken down into 15 blocks! Just by reading various wikipedia articles, it looks like the district is closest to county-equivalent. A city can take up multiple tahsils, but generally is only in one district. So Agra is in the Agra district in Uttar Pradesh (state) :) Easy enough!

Thanks for the postcard!


Mykonos (Cyclades Prefecture), Greece

Here's one from Mykonos, Greece, which is in the Cyclades Prefecture (county-equivalent) in the South Aegean Periphery (state-equivalent). Thanks Chandra!


Vatican City

Looks like we have our first complete country, Vatican City, the smallest country in the world at 0.17 square miles! I think you're right, Chandra, there probably isn't much reason to split it into subdivisions :)


Kusadasi, Aydin Province, Turkey

Obviously not in order, here is another from Chandra who is now in Turkey, wow! It looks like Turkey has Regions, Provinces, then Towns, so Provinces would be the county-equivalent. So here is one from the coastal province of Aydin in the Aegean region. Thanks!


Stockholm, Stockholm County (Stockholms län), Sweden

Here's a postcard from Sweden from Chandra and her family. I wonder if Sweden omits postmarks from all their postcards. I'm glad you mentioned where you sent it from! Thanks!


Harding County, New Mexico

Here's are two postcards from the remote county of Harding in New Mexico, one of the smallest by population in the country. I'm not only extremely glad they responded, but that they hand-made two postcards for me! If you look closely, you can see the scotch tape on the top :) This one was from someone who works at the Harding County Extension Office of the New Mexico State University in Mosquero, NM. Thanks!