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Category Archives: Travel
A Tale of Two Clints – Meeting in Marseille
24 Tuesday Nov 2015
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, Friendship, Love, message in a bottle, Romance, Travel
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Clint Buffington, Gwen and Clinton Bennett, Inspiration, love, marseille, message in a bottle, travel
Marseille’s shoreline glitters under the Mediterranean sun. Legend has it the first messages in bottles were sent in these very waters a couple thousand years ago by a Greek fellow named Theophrastus who hung out with both Plato and Aristotle.
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Reunion in Dresden
16 Wednesday Sep 2015
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, Friendship, message in a bottle, Romance, Travel
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Blaues Wunder, Clint Buffington, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Festung Koenigstein, Festung Konigstein, Frauenkirche, Germany, message in a bottle, Ryan Overton, Saxon Switzerland, Saxony, Schloss Moritzburg, Semperoper
Dresden… Dresden… Dresden…
I thought of the city daily for months before my trip to Europe. I was enchanted by the place, and had been since I was a kid.
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Hot Hamburg(ers) on the 4th of July! Driftwood, Strangers, Oceanography, and a Very Old Message in a Bottle
25 Tuesday Aug 2015
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, Friendship, message in a bottle, Travel
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Angela Erdmann, Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, Clint Buffington, Flaschenpost, Hamburg, international maritime museum, internationales maritimes museum, Konrad Fischer, message in a botle, Richard Platz, treibholzeffekt, World's Oldest Message in a Bottle
Imagine you are marching in heat of about 100F, and the sun is intense–no clouds to protect you; imagine you are in a city, with the sun bouncing up off the pavement, and high humidity. You sweat uncontrollably for hours. Ok–now you are with me in Hamburg, Germany on July 4th, 2015. But how did we get here?
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Meeting Sabine: Soap, Ruins, Adventure
12 Wednesday Aug 2015
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2015 European Heat Wave, algalita marine research foundation, Clint Buffington, Dusseldorf, Energie Pyramide, Frank O. Gehry, German TV Tower, Germany, Inspiration, Kaiserpfalz, Kaiserswerth, Konigsallee, Maxim Gorkiy, message in a bottle, Meteora Grill, plastic, Pollution, Rhein, Rhine, Sabine, Thomas Schonauer
Sabine’s message in a bottle had proven to be such a mystery for so long, I really didn’t know what I expected to happen if I tried to visit her in Dusseldorf…
Nevertheless, July 1st, 2015 I found myself on a Germanwings flight from London to Dusseldorf. I had just flown from Chicago to London the night before on a flight I shared with a former student from 4 or 5 years before–Crazy! It felt like leaving the states was like going through a portal—here on the other side, in Europe, anything was possible.
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Sleuthing a Message in a Bottle With the Salt Lake Tribune
07 Monday Jul 2014
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, Friendship, message in a bottle, News, Science, Travel
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algalita, algalita marine research foundation, beachcombers alert, captain charles moore, charles moore, Clint Buffington, curt ebbesmeyer, curtis ebbesmeyer, erin alberty, flotsametrics, Melissa Majchzak, message in a bottle, messages in bottles, plastic ocean, plastic pollution, salt lake tribune
The work I do with messages in bottles (MIBs) is often solitary work. Occasionally, the stars align and I have help with the work. This May, I had special visit from the Salt Lake Tribune who helped me track down the sender of a particularly elusive bottle. This one:
