What better to spice up a day in suburban/rural middle America than...

a postcard from Istanbul!

And so the mad pen palling begins. I guess I will start with an electronic postcard of sorts...

Dear Kaitlyn,

Thank you for being my pen pal. You are probably the only person in this world that will ever send me letters to the extent that I will send you letters. So, I'm glad I found you, my meant to be pen pal. Here's to our friendship of inspirations, world travel, cheesy postcard photographers and the US/a couple other countries Post Office...and of course Juan...who really started it all.

<3 jasmin With that...voila! Here is the first postcard of our exchange!  

I was an avid stamp collector as a youngun and by avid...I mean, I collected everything for about two or three days each. Now I have rocks, stamps, foreign bills, stickers but not very much of anything. Nevertheless, stamps still really fascinate me.