23 Wednesday Nov 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel
Around this time last year, a woman named Sarah Hyde found a message in a bottle written in Spanish. With help from a friend, she discovered it amounted to a sort of prayer written by the sender, wishing for the safe passage of a family from Cuba to America.
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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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18 Saturday Jul 2015
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adventure, beachcomb, beachcombing, Clint Buffington, europe, Flaschenpost, message in a bottle, MIB, travel
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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03 Tuesday Dec 2013
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adventure, Asheville, beachcombing, business card in a bottle, Clint Buffington, Cocoa Beach, cypress gardens, Grenelefe, illustration, John E Freeland, Long Island, message in a bottle, message in a bottle hunter, ocean currents, Phil Freeland, romance, stick figure, travel, winter haven
No one answered my phone call. I was jittery before I tried the number—I always get a little shaky when I’m on the verge of finding a sender.
Maybe it’s the coffee. I am, admittedly, an addict.
07 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, message in a bottle, Romance, Travel, weird news
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adventure, beachcombing, Caribbean, Clint Buffington, Godzilla, Guinness, history, humor, illustration, Inspiration, message in a bottle, Neptune, Ovaltine, scroll, stick figure, travel
In 1959, something bizarre and completely unprecedented happened in the Atlantic ocean.
I know what you’re thinking: Godzilla sighting…
23 Friday Sep 2011
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, message in a bottle, Travel, weird news
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Friends and neighbors, imagine my surprise when I found a message in a bottle from my favorite beer company, Guinness!
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