But for all that, certain travelers will want to brave peril in pursuit of the perfect postcard.
There are stretches of the Canal du Midi of such perfect postcard beauty they take your breath away.
And yet in Morzine yesterday, as the snow fell and the town was transformed into a picture perfect postcard, the focus was on the season ahead.
For decades, people have strolled along the scenic beachfront walkways that make for perfect postcard backgrounds.
Cape Town is trying to reconnect its myriad pasts and peoples, and it's all the more wonderful (and welcoming) when seen as a whole rather than just picture-perfect postcards of exclusion.
Herman Schultheis' Los Angeles isn't always the same one seen in so many picture-perfect postcards of the era with squeaky-clean streets, pristine beaches, movie star homes, and endless fields of orange groves.
The creek gurgles, in a cheerful, non-threatening, way, a picture-perfect, postcard-perfect creek.
But once you turn off the Promenade des Anglais and into the old town, it's like the perfect French postcard, full of picturesque squares, old churches and small, pedestrian-only alleys that wind up the hill.
Its large plate glass windows frame perfect picture postcard views of Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge.
I am not that perfect gay postcard.
White signs point finger style to postcard perfect villages, Bishop Burton, Lund, North Newbald, South Dalton, Millington, Sledmere.
