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New Hope, Part Two: Finding and Meeting Janet

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, Love, message in a bottle, Romance, Travel, Uncategorized

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Well, I found Janet and Bruce LaClair’s message in a bottle in February 2008. They had sent it from the bridge in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1981.

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"April 4, 1981. Launched from the Delaware River, New Hope, Pennsylvania. To Whomever is the finder and keeper of this bottle. This is the date of our wedding and the start of our life together. We are leaving Pennsylvania on April 6th, 1981 to go on our honeymoon at Key Largo, Florida until April 12 of the same year. We hope to find this bottle while there and figure out the traveling time of which the botle took (if it is a good time, the next time we come down there we will build a raft and just float down). If found, please respond with place found and date. Thank you. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce La Clair, P.O. Box 131, Pipersville, PA"
“April 4, 1981. Launched from the Delaware River, New Hope, Pennsylvania. To Whomever is the finder and keeper of this bottle. This is the date of our wedding and the start of our life together. We are leaving Pennsylvania on April 6th, 1981 to go on our honeymoon at Key Largo, Florida until April 12 of the same year. We hope to find this bottle while there and figure out the traveling time of which the botle took (if it is a good time, the next time we come down there we will build a raft and just float down). If found, please respond with place found and date. Thank you. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce La Clair, P.O. Box 131, Pipersville, PA”

But how would I find them? The message was older than I was! Continue reading →

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Business Card in a Bottle, Part Two: Finding and Meeting Richard Kaplan

16 Saturday Jul 2011

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, Friendship, message in a bottle, Travel

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How a Business Card in a Bottle Led Me to New York City

After meeting Ed and Carol Meyers in Washington, D.C., I was back on the train, heading to New York City to meet Richard Kaplan. I was determined to get my money’s worth from my Amtrak Rail Pass! And, I needed to meet the man on the other end of this business card in a bottle I found two years earlier.

Richard Kaplan's business card in a bottle.

Richard Kaplan’s business card in a bottle.

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Business Card in a Bottle, Part One: Finding the Message

11 Monday Jul 2011

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel, Uncategorized

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One day in May of 2007, I decided to go on a big hike over some rocky bluffs along the ocean, and I ended up finding this message in a bottle:

My original goal was to get from one beach to another, but I wanted to see what the coastline was like between the two beaches. Here’s a map of my hike, and what I discovered:

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Cake in a Bottle, Part One: Finding and Reading the Message

05 Tuesday Jul 2011

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, archives of the sea, Love, message in a bottle

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Message in a Bottle, Cake in a Bottle. What’s The Difference?

In 2007, I found this message in a bottle. It was one of the first messages I ever found, and also one of the strangest. I didn’t know it yet, but this wasn’t just a message in a bottle. It was also a cake in a bottle!

Cheers!

I found it on the beach of this one desolate island I hiked to with my brother and my dad. Here’s a map of the hike we went on that day: Continue reading →

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