Welcome to Postcard Jar (and 2024)

Welcome to Postcard Jar and happy new year! Whether you've been reading our blog for years, follow us on social media, or are brand new, we're glad...

It’s Postcard Jar’s fifth blogiversary!

Five years ago today, we sat in a lounge at the Doubletree Hotel in Rochester, Minnesota, and published our first-ever blog post on postcardjar.com....

Woo-hoo! Our updated travel blog is here!

After weeks of editing, cropping, categorizing and designing, our updated travel blog is here! So, what do you think? If you’ve been a reader of our...

Ann’s visit with The Weary Teacher

A couple weeks ago, while helping our daughter, Meghan, get settled at her new place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I met another blogger who is just...

At least for us, blogging is more about relationships and not just the numbers

This week marks the fourth year of our travel blog, Postcard Jar, and we can't thank you enough for following along on our journeys. Since we wrote...

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It’s National Plan for Vacation Day!

It’s National Plan for Vacation Day!

For more than 20 years, I didn't have any choice on when I'd take a vacation. The school board granted my days when they approved the yearly calendar every February. And even though I did have some time off in summers, there were always more meetings, more planning...

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We’re sharing postcards from our readers!

We’re sharing postcards from our readers!

As the busy travel season gets underway, we thought we take the opportunity to share a whole bunch of the postcards y'all have sent us. In this electronic age, we love going to our post office box and seeing hand written postcards from readers like you who have...

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Where we’re headed in 2018

Where we’re headed in 2018

Some people make resolutions on New Year's Day. Not us. We make reservations. It has become a bit of a tradition for us to sit in bed on New Year's morning, sip mimosas and finalize vacation plans for the year. The best part of the day is when I get to click the,...

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His boxes and our bags are packed

His boxes and our bags are packed

Today was Steve's last day of work as middle school principal at Crete Public Schools. You can read all about his decision to move on to something new HERE. At the end of the day, he packed up the last of his personal belongings from his office while I was home...

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Blogiversary 3: By the numbers

Blogiversary 3: By the numbers

Bloggers seem to be into numbers. Likes, followers, comments, page views, posts, sessions, bounce rates ... The list goes on and on and on. When Steve and I started our blog, we couldn't help but watch the numbers ourselves. Then, last May, we went to TBEX North...

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Blogiversary 3: What a year!

Blogiversary 3: What a year!

Who'd a thunk it? Three years into this crazy adventure we call travel blogging, we're having the time of our lives and we can't thank you enough! Readers like you have inspired us every day with your comments and suggestions, notes about your travel experiences, and...

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Crete’s Great Pumpkin Festival

Crete’s Great Pumpkin Festival

Our hometown of Crete, Neb., hosted its 2nd Annual Great Pumpkin Festival this weekend and we had so much fun hosting the photo booth and meeting so many new people. This year's festival was even bigger and better than last year's inaugural event [read more about that...

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Celebrating our 2nd blogiversary!

Celebrating our 2nd blogiversary!

Two years ago today, we sat in a Doubletree hotel in Rochester, Minnesota, where we had returned for a third time since that January for appointments at the Mayo Clinic. The next day, I was to have an electrophysiology study and a heart biopsy in hopes of helping...

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And we’re off!

And we’re off!

After months of dilly dallying around with the idea (slash dream) of a travel blog, we decided to just get it going this weekend. We've got a day to kill in cold and gloomy Rochester, Minnesota,  before I return for the third time since January to the Mayo Clinic....

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