Keep Me Posted The Slice Shares Postcards Received From Reader’s Summer Adventures

One thing became clear soon after The Slice asked readers to send postcards from their summer vacations.

The Shelley family wasn’t going to let us down.

Cards chronicling their cross-country trek from Spokane to Alabama and back started arriving in the middle of June. And they kept coming. And coming.

They ranged from a Snake River scene mailed from Pocatello, Idaho, to a picture of a beach sent from Florida.

Seeing their friendly sign-off - “Pat, Kevin, Griff and Nik (the dog)” - got to be so familiar that, if several days went by and we hadn’t heard from the Shelleys, the thought occurred “Why don’t they write?”

Of course, we got mail from other readers, too.

Eric and Mark Odegard sent a neat card from St. Louis (the arch surrounded by low clouds) during their trip across America highlighted by stops at multiple major league baseball games. (They were momentarily freaked out by the sight of a former KREM-TV newscaster on a St. Louis station.)

Don and Bev Johnson mailed a card from Yellowknife, up in northwest Canada. “Have had thunderstorms, forest fires, thick black smoke and ever-present black flies,” they wrote. “But still having fun.”

Tina Berner sent a picture of a gorilla after she and her 14-year-old son checked out the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. “We spent 24 hours a day together for seven days and never once got into an argument,” she wrote.

There were lots more we don’t have room to acknowledge. But thanks to all who sent us postcards. It has been a pleasure.

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