My latest blog entry is about brevet card stamps. See
http://audaxing.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/stamp-collecting/
http://audaxing.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/stamp-collecting/
Sad as it may be, I have to admit that some of the old brevet cards full of inky splodges, sometimes barely readable because the weather was awful, bring back memories. Gps rides don't create such evocative ephemera.