It's a small world after all.

I've met people from my midsized (40k people) town all over Europe, from beergardens in Munich to the top of mountains in the Alps, Carpathians, and Dolomites. I also ran into my best friends parents while walking around Vegas, was walking through the Venician and heard a familiar voice, peered around the trees that lined the cafes porch and there they were.

We all come from frogs you know?! :C

Several years ago I was in a small town in Honduras. I had just returned to my hotel and a group of men from North Carolina had arrived. I was chatting with a couple of the men, asking where they were from and why they were travelling around Honduras. I mentioned my BIL and his family lived in a small town on the coast of NC and one of them said there was a fellow in their group from the same small town. I met the young man and turns out he is my BIL neighbor!!! Small world ......

Not camping, but When my wife and I got married we rented a house in our small town in upstate NY. We only had time to get the keys and go check the inside before we departed to our wedding and honeymoon. As we pulled in the driveway of the rental the new neighbors were entering a taxi with their bags heading on vacation, we literally only had time to wave. Fast forward to our honeymoon @ Disney world, standing directly in front of us in a line was you guessed it, our new neighbors we seen for 1 minute 3 days earlier.

In 2011, we were hiking in Yellowstone and stopped to rest on a bench. Another family came hiking up and joined us. The two wives started talking and soon discovered that the other wife's family originally came from the same small town in TN that my wife grew up in. (She remembered going there when she was very little to visit relatives.) With further questioning, they found that they were actually distant cousins. They shared a common ancestor about 3 generations back.

Walking on the beach in SC my wife ran into a man that she went to high school 60 years ago. He saw our licence plate and asked what town. They remembered each other.