Ultraportable Road Trip

I try to keep my focus to buy typewriters fairly local. If I'm browsing Marketplace, I keep a rather small radius, but inevitably I glance outside of that radius for the right item. My best friend has been interested in a typewriter since I started writing to her with one, but she has different needs …

A surprising friend

I feel the need to highlight my first typewriter, the one who sealed my fate as a typist and typewriter collector, despite my family's continuous and unimaginative questioning of my decision with the query, "Why?" Clarice, my 1964 Smith-Corona Sterling, bought for $10 on Marketplace It's important to note I didn't just happen to fall …

The Beginning

I bought my first two typewriters on June 19, 2023. Yes, I am new at this, and yes, I did buy two immediately. The first I picked up in person from a Facebook Marketplace seller, committed without even testing it, because I just wanted to get my hands on one. It is a 1964 Smith-Corona …