Jesse knows postcards have been nudged aside by social media, but she stubbornly clings to the ritual. There’s something she loves about delivering that little jolt of nostalgia — the kind you feel when you’re sorting through junk mail and suddenly stumble on a handwritten note tucked between the snail mail. For this small-town girl, postcards go hand in hand with a deep curiosity about what else might be out there… even if it sometimes turned out to be more of the same.

These days, postcards are quaint and a little harder to find, but Jesse still makes it her mission to track them down wherever she goes. Before she ever hits the road, she’s already jotted down addresses and stocked up on stamps. Once she’s out there, she keeps an eye out in roadside oddities and offbeat general stores, always hunting for the perfect card.

At the end of each day, she sits down to reflect, distills her experiences into a few witty lines, and then goes on the hunt for a mailbox. She has one firm rule: it doesn’t count unless the postcard is postmarked during the trip.