28 Tuesday Jun 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Mystery Message
It has been a while since I have posted one of the “Mystery Messages” that keep me up nights, wondering who on earth sent them and why.
You might remember The Case of the Crazy Dollar Bill, or the mystery message from Christopher aboard the Gripsholm, also known as the Sagafjord. You might recall The Mystery of the Beautiful Terrorist, or the Mystery Cameras I found washed ashore–one of which contained photos of a man I am hoping to identify. Continue reading
16 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in message in a bottle, Romance
A lot of folks like to compare messages in bottles to social media—particularly Facebook. Reporters often suggest that sending a message in a bottle is like the original “friend request” and that responding to one is like accepting it.
02 Thursday Jun 2016
Posted in message in a bottle, Mystery Message, plastic
Howdy folks! Today’s post is a plea for your help: I found a message in a bottle from someone named Ray who lives in Philadelphia, but I need help finding Ray!
26 Friday Feb 2016
Posted in message in a bottle, Romance
Tags
finding a message in a bottle, Golden Discs, message in a bottle, Nicholas Sparks, Penpal, Sting, Voyager, why send a message in a bottle
I am often asked why people send messages in bottles and why we romanticize them so much. I’m sharing my response to those questions here in hopes that you will comment and respond to this line of questioning, too. Why are we so fascinated by messages in bottles? Why do we send them? Why do we hope to find them? What do they tell us about ourselves and about our world? My responses are right here. I hope you’ll respond in the comments below 🙂
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17 Wednesday Feb 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel
Tags
Canterbury, Chaucer, Clint Buffington, Garden of England, Geoffrey Chaucer, Letterboxing, message in a bottle, Pilgrim's Way, public footpath
Here’s that bottle I found while shuffling past a bunch of plastic body parts on the beach in 2011:
10 Wednesday Feb 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel
There’s something beautiful but unsettling about cloudy days in the Caribbean. You expect every day on every Caribbean island to look more or less like a Corona commercial: blue skies, turquoise water, blinding white sand. When it’s not like that, something just feels…off. And so it was that I set out on a gray, cloudy beach hike May 26th, 2011 feeling all gray and cloudy myself.
Somehow, that mood transferred to my beachcombing and it affected what I saw. I kept zooming in on stuff like this:
