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The Advocate features editor Jan Risher wrote a column to kick off the summer about the wonders of road trips. She asked readers to send in postcards from their own travels this summer. The response has been more than any of us expected. Last week she updated readers on how postcards can tell stories and once again invited readers to send her postcards detailing their travels.

We have created an interactive map to show where each sender visited and display their postcard — and we’re hoping to add more before Labor Day. 

So far, Risher has received 68 postcards from 22 states and seven other countries.

If you’ve been looking for travel inspiration, look no further; here is where our readers have been traveling this summer.

The states with the most postcards

Of the postcards we received, Tennessee and Colorado are tied for the most postcards with six postcards from each state. Of the six from Tennessee, three came from Nashville. Each postcard from Colorado came from a different location in the state.

Hot locations

Aside from the most postcards coming from Tennessee and Colorado, Utah is close behind with five postcards, along with Mississippi and Alaska with four postcards each.

Dena from Baton Rouge wrote , “Dear Jan, Since I’ve retired (June 2020) I have taken 4 Retirement Ramblings where I meander the backroads of the U.S. avoiding the Interstates. I visited Boulder this past May on my Retirement Ramblings #4 which took me through TX, OK, KS, CO, WY, SD, IA, MO, AR and back home to New Iberia.”

National parks

National parks and monuments were also popular destinations with nine postcards from national parks and three from national monuments.

Catherine wrote, “Jan, Greetings from Alberta, Canada. Thinking of a story on national parks–what variations we have