Photo courtesy of Gene Coughlin
Dwight's Soup, or Poppa's latest raft

April 20, 2007: Poppa is enroute across San Fransisco Bay to arrive at the San Fransisco World's Fair for the weekend. Meanwhile, he wishes to thank his hosts the Sportsmen's Club on the San Joaquin River, and the Rusty Porthole on Bethel Island: "The place to be on Bethel Island! Great food, dancing, singing; restaurant and bar." (-Poppa)

February 2007: Poppa's latest raft was begun in Portland, OR, near the end of the year 2006, and was then towed on a trailer to Northern California, where he continues to work on it in preparation for the Pacific crossing. Meanwhile, he has been invited by the graduating class of the MA Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts to participate in The San Francisco World's Fair of 2007, an exhibition reconsidering the nature of progress. The Fair is scheduled for April 20 to April 22, 2007. A quote from their letter of invitation: "As curators of an exhibition that will reexamine the nature of progress, we find both your raft building and your life philosophy compelling. Your use of salvaged materials to create alternative modes of transportation to cross ephemeral borders strongly resonates with our curatorial platform. In addition, your voyage from San Francisco to Beijing is a marker of achievement in our time, one that embodies our ideas of progress for the future." www.sfworldsfair.org

Poppa has been joined in his Pacific crossing project by Wolfgang Von Raven, who is currently providing major assistance to Poppa, and plans to also build a raft and sail across with Poppa. Wolfgang's website is freedomfuels.net

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