I saw this on Facebook; it originated at the Glunz Ocean Beach Hotel & Resort, which is in Key Colony Beach, Florida...So one of our owners Judi was walking on the beach this morning cleaning up the junk that washed into shore and finds a bottle with a message in it. There is also some sand and 2 one dollar bills. Once we get it open and read the notes we find out that it is in fact NOT sand. It is the ashes of this woman's husband of 70 years named Gordon. She writes that He loved to travel so she sent him traveling in a bottle with a note and money for someone to call home and tell her where he landed. He started at Big Pine Key in March of 2012 and then went to Islamerada where someone found him. They added a note and sent him traveling again and he landed on our beach in Key Colony. Judi called the wife in Tennessee who was excited to know of Gordon's travels! Judi added her note, we put him in a rum bottle (you know added a little fun to his trip) with the three notes. We added another dollar in case Gordon travels far and a long distance call is needed. We will be having a memorial service or celebration of his life on our beach later today before sending him on his way again. Only our sister Judi could find a dead guy on our beach!
I think this would be a nice way to see the world - at least the parts of the world covered by water - when we really have a lot of leisure time on our hands. I'm not sure what kind of bottle I'd like to be in. I don't drink soda, and they make those water bottles so thin and flimsy these days, I don't know how long they could be expected to last.
It dawns on me that if all I have to worry about for now is what type of bottle I want to wind up in, I don't really have any big problems. Thank you, world!
Go ahead and use a ginger ale bottle. When I did guzzle soda, that was my favorite. But not just yet! Take your time.
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