We tramped up a dusty road, past postcard sellers, under the midday sun, until we reached the Corinth archaeological site — a cream-colored building with a green door, where, we were told, we should take our artifact.
One major route of the Camino passes through San Sebastián, so for a taste of the celebrated trek, hike up Calle de Zemoriya in Gros and follow the yellow trail markings (in reverse), weaving through lush forests and past postcard-perfect panoramas of cliffs sinking into the sea.
It opened with Mrs Whitehouse cycling to church past picture-postcard cottages and whitewashed picket fences (oblivious to the occasional wife with a black eye).
Sliding past the postcard display, a 28-year old sales associate named Baptiste who was buying a copy explained that, while he doesn't buy Charlie Hebdo on a weekly basis, he has been a regular reader of the provocative weekly since before the attack.
So perhaps the past is where postcards belong.
Starting today, visitors to the museum's Web site (www.skyscraper.org) can use the map to zoom into a neighborhood, select one of 120 big buildings and see its past depicted through postcards, construction photographs and other documents from the museum's archives.
Sweeping past the picture-postcard campus of Centre College, a small liberal arts institution, Route 127 becomes Main Street, which is as all-American and appealing as the name suggests.
This is a series that, by courting nostalgia for America's postcard past, inspires it in fans, even though it ended 25 years ago and will never come back barring some hellish, ill-advised reboot featuring Justin Bieber riding around on an IO Hawk.
We're also looking for memorabilia of past productions — playbills, posters, postcards, photographs — that have meaning.
After rising at dawn, we made our way along the shacks selling cola, finely embroidered slippers and papier- mâché monuments, past the hawkers selling postcards, bangles and guide books, and through the army security checks into the Taj Mahal.
