(UPDATE) Heres a find of the day, doesnt even include a MD.....but its cooool

[lennon631]

(UPDATE) Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's cooool

I have a DayCare in my home and the kids and I took a pill vial and placed a note in it saying "if found, please contact us at" and wrote my email address on it. That was three weeks ago, and released it from the south shore of Long Island New York. We received an email today from a woman in Rhode Island (about 150 miles away) saying "found your bottle today". Anyway, my grandson, the kids and ME thought that was pretty cool....

Okay, they wrote me back again and it turns out they found it at the beach washed up on shore, so apparently the balloon ran out of air over the Long Island Sound or the Atlantic Ocean, then floated it's way for the rest of it's journey.

 

[Tnmountains]

Re: Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's cooool

That is very cool. They have proved that plastic can travel around the world. I bet the kids were excited

 

[lennon631]

Re: Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's cooool

They were ECSTATIC!

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Re: Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's cooool

That is really cool..the farmland i have been MD'n at has a river that runs thru it...and i was donw by the banks once and found a bottle with a note in it from a Kindergaten Class in 1990..it was cool cause it was from a small town near where i was at..And it evenhad a name..i googled it and found out the kid graduated with some degree in Aeronautic??..But he doesnt have a facebook or anything..so im thinking take it back to the school...either way it was cool to open that bottle for the first time in 20 years..

 

[kory1]

Re: Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's cooool

You should tell her to throw it back in and see if you get another call.
-k

 

[lennon631]

Re: (UPDATE) Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's co

That's pretty cool Diggin! I hope you find the guy, he'll probably enjoy it!

 

[lennon631]

Re: Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's cooool

You should tell her to throw it back in and see if you get another call.
-k

I DID KORY! LOL I worote and said to put her email address and short note about its journey, along with my email, and reattach it to a balloon and see how far it gets. A balloon chain letter lol!

 

[DPBOB]

Re: (UPDATE) Here's a find of the day, doesn't even include a MD.....but it's cooool

On 8-1-10 I found a balloon in my driveway at about 4:00pm. It said it was sent up in Madison WI and had an email.
I emailed him about it. Seems his 8 year old son did it at about 8:30am that morning. The guy was thankful for responding to it.
That was maybe 120 mile trip.