feral trade salt from Dandi Gujarat, India ferally traded since: 02/03/08. FER-1481 Cube Microplex Bristol, UK to Grizzly Street Banff, Canada dispatched 20/02/09 delivered 03/03/09 salt shipment FER-1481 REMARKS: gift QTY: 1 units at bag each FROM: Cube Microplex in Bristol, UK http://microplex.cubecinema.com TO: Grizzly Street in Banff, Canada http:// SENDER: kate rich RECEIVER: Susan Kennard REQUESTED: to ship between 20/02/09 and 01/03/09 STATUS: delivered Grizzly Street 03/03/09 MAP route map www.feraltrade.org COURIER: sneha solanki  Mrs and Mr Solanki  heath bunting  kate rich  Susan Kennard  TOTAL ROUTE:  Dandi-Gujarat-Mumbai-London Heathrow Airport-Leicester-Newcastle Station-polytechnic-Leeds Station-Bristol Temple Meads station-Rosebery Avenue-Cube Microplex-Bristol airport-Newark Liberty airport-LAX Los Angeles airport-Los Angeles Union Station-Materials & Applications-Calgary Airport-Banff Centre--Grizzly Street         salt Cube Microplex to Grizzly Street 1. checkin bristol airport 2. air canada bags check los angeles calgary 3. feral bags arrive lloyd hall banff 4. susan kennard gujarati salt Shipping Facts FER-1472 import purchase & freight 1 x salt bag gross per bag Courier Report FER-1481 DISPATCHED: 20/02/09 DELIVERED: 03/03/09 kate rich shipped with a consignment of robotic dogs (FER-1474) travelling bristol to new york (FER-1475), 4 bags coffee for toronto (FER-1471), mixed goods (assorted british groceries) to LA (FER-1475) and Cube-Cola from Bristol (FER-1482) . Departed cube 730AM courtesy driver / bristol musisican rasha shaheen to bristol airport. smooth transit through check in queue where travellers are routinely interrogated by US border officals with wheeled laptops on their identity, history and travel arrangements although they did ask me if i packed the robotic dogs myself. continental airlines' eastern european desk agent wordlessly upgraded courier to frequent flyer 'elite' status, to allow 2 giant boxes to be checked in without excess charges. delivered mini-artist talk on robot dog artist natalie jeremijenko's behalf to the oversized items desk agent, explaining the modified toy dogs' capacity to sniff out and converge in a pack on concentration gradients of common environmental toxins such as neighborhood drycleaners, after which boxes departed on baggage conveyer belt. rearranged other items to appear as 1 carry-on and cleared security without incident. 1015AM continental departure to newark, new jersey departed on time, watched bullit and read a hardback thriller about environmental justice called water inc. landing at newark 13h was ultra turbulent, threw up. it took approximately 1 hour to transit US immigration which requires now 2 thumbprints and 2 sets of 4 fingerprints from all non-US arrivals. picked up boxes from the luggage carousel, cleared customs and just prior to the bag recheck area, repacked, removing dogs and boxes to recheck 2 entirely different bags for the connecting flight to LA. 16h rendevouzed with natalie jeremijenko and car service car opposite terminal B starbucks, the dogs departed in car trunk for manhattan. After that, re-traversed Newark Liberty airport security for the 1825h Continental airlines departure to Los Angeles. LA Flyaway bus from LAX arrivals green zone to Union station for truck pickup by jenna didier of Materials & Aplications, drove to M&A for 6 days stopover, winter sun. 25th feb departed M&A by 530AM taxi back to Union station and Flyaway bus back to LAX. Checked in bags reweighed down and marked fragile with California dried goods for mountain survival at United desk. 745AM flight to Calgary as scheduled, dozed. At immigration, sent to secondary for questioning on what a Peer Advisor actually does. Cleared baggage check and caught last seat on 1230 banff airporter shuttle to banff with a pack of skiers and 1 wealthy woman using collective transportation out of desperation. minus 20 degrees and snow. Slept through mountain transit, alighted banff centre reception around 3PM. onward transit of FER-1472 from Dandi arrived Cube Microplex 2009-02-17 sneha solanki The salt was picked up in Leicester, UK on 1st February which was then transported up to Newcastle upon Tyne. The salt was dispatched to courier Heath Bunting on 7 February whilst visiting to transport back to Bristol. Mrs and Mr Solanki The second shipment of salt comes from the West Coast of India infamous for Gandhi's 1930 salt march in against the salt tax levied by British colonial rule. Due to environmental factors Salt production has ceased on this area of the salt march and now takes place a small distance further up the coastline within the same state. These salt crystals are pre-ground and pre-processed. Used for cooking and also for medicinal purposes. We picked brought these salt crystals from a small local shop. It was then packed in our luggage and transported to the UK from India. salt transit: Dandi to Cube Microplex       freight and handling salt to Grizzly Street sponsored by                   FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org