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A Familiar Face Appears in the Crowd

18 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, Finding and Meeting the Senders, message in a bottle, Travel

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As I write this, I sit in Heathrow airport in London, having just arrived from Chicago (this will be posted later). I’m on the first leg of a journey to meet the senders of messages in bottles, and hopefully to make new friends. I’m surrounded by strangers, and yet, I can’t shake the feeling that there must be invisible connections between us we are simply not aware of. Maybe someone near me has visited my hometown, or maybe they know one of my friends. Heck, I may actually know someone here!
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Artlantic Message in a Bottle, Part Two: The Real John Piper of Exeter

27 Saturday Aug 2011

Posted by Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, archives of the sea, Finding and Meeting the Senders, Friendship, message in a bottle, plastic, Romance, Travel

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Three pencil sketches in a bottle I found washed ashore in the Caribbean in 2008.

That night, after my mom had taken the drawings out of the bottle, we passed them around, speculating.  Was this the work of a famous artist we weren’t familiar with?  Did we hold priceless treasure in our hands, the flippant gesture of an artist bored at sea?  What was this?!

I emailed John the very night I got home.

Dear Mr. Piper,

We are strangers to each other, or were, but you should know this: I found your pencil sketches—the ones you put in a big plastic bottle and tossed in the sea!

Two hour later, he wrote back to me!

What an amazing thing to happen. It has been drifting around since November 2006! When I threw it over the side of P & O cruise ship Oceana, (but then you might know that already, I can’t really remember what I put on the notes? It was only a bit of fun and just a very long shot). I had no idea where it would end up; probably swallowed by some passing whale perhaps? So where on earth did you find it? I am so totally overcome by this event.

I live in Exeter, in the County of Devon, in the South West of England. I am retired and painting and writing full time.

John Piper in the Caribbean in 2007

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