Yes, Grey, I DO read the cards. That's why I ask you to put your forum handle on them.
So, since I'm too lazy to do a google map, here's the current tally, and mind that just because I list a country, that means I either have 1 card from there, or 50. A card is a card.
I currently have 412 cards (edit: I forgot to count an older box of cards, collected before you guys started sending them to me). I've been collecting them since I was 30, when I bought a postcard in Canada while visiting there, and thought "hmm, it might be neat to collect postcards of places I go." That evolved into "okay, I want a postcard from every state and province in the US and Canada." Now it's evolved into "I want a card from every nation on Earth."
So, here are the nations/territories/possessions from which I have cards:
UNITED STATES:
I have a card from every state EXCEPT Nebraska and North Dakota. Nobody seems to go to Nebraska or North Dakota.
WESTERN HEMISPHERE:
Canada, Bermuda, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and believe it or not, Antarctica.
I also have cards from Easter Island and the Galapagos Islands.
Someone, get me a card from Cuba! And that dutch island down in the Caribbean whose name I can't recall at the moment.
EUROPE:
England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Monaco, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Crete, Italy, Sicily, Vatican City, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Finland, Iceland.
I have cards from the Canary Islands as well, but I don't know exactly which nation owns them, so they get their own mention.
AFRICA:
Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Sierre Leone, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Lesotho.
I don't have many from Africa, hmm. But someone sent me an awesome card of the Victoria Falls, and another beautiful card of Mount Kilamanjaro.
NEAR EAST ASIA:
Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan.
FAR EAST ASIA/PACIFIC RIM:
China, Thailand, Vietnam (believe it or not), South Korea, Mongolia, Russia (this one is from Kamchakta), Japan, Singapore, the Phillipines, Malaysia, Australia, Tazmania, New Zealand, Fiji, New Guinea.
I also have cards depicting Iwo Jima, the Marshall Islands, and Midway Island, though those aren't technically countries. As far as I remember, they're territories or possessions.
PLACES I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY ARE:
Ascension Island.
Seriously...where the heck is Ascension Island? The card just depicts a raher mean looking crab, no geography, and the postage and postmark also read Ascension Island. Pacific Ocean, I take it?
I also have some random postcards which are worth mention:
--a card written on the box flap of an MRE, sent to me by an active duty military member in Afghanistan.
--a card of silly road signs from all over America, real signs, but real silly.
--a card depicting monopoly money.
--cards depicting the natural wonders of Angel Falls, Niagra Falls, Victoria Falls, Mount Saint Helens, Yosemite Falls, and breathtaking desert landscapes from Utah, Egypt, and China.
My current favorite postcard is an aerial view of the Arch de Triumphe, in Paris. It's GORGEOUS.
The card currently sitting by my computer is the last one I received, which is from Lisbon Portugal, sent by Greymist. When I get another, that one gets put in the postcard box.
So, there you go guys. It's no google map, but that's my postcard collection.
Edit by Spec8472:
Google Map (in progress) - http://goo.gl/maps/ypkY
