It's a small world after all.

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.

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.

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.

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 ......

We all come from frogs you know?! :C

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.

30 years ago i went to view a house for rent
There was another couple there also to view it
The landlord called my name and we both answered
Same first name same last name
It seems we were related thru our paternal grandfathers being from the same family
My grandfather moved from Tenn to Missouri
His from Tenn too Texas

About 5 years ago, we were camping in Florida and got talking to a camping neighbour, we both had Ontario licence plates on our vehicles. He said they were from a small town west of Niagara Falls, yes, me too. Names, I went to school with a Patsy G and her father was a Mr. G , my high school wood shop teacher. Response My sister and father, His father taught and helped him with the interior conversion of his highway to the finished RV.

And yesterday talking to a some friends, someone said I've got a birthday coming up, then me two, and me three. our birthdays May 17, 18 and 19.

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Yep, we bump into people we know all over the country. Always interesting talking about common experiences from "back when." Some of the "ghosts" in my past, I hope I NEVER see again though.

In The early 1970's we were camping at MacKerricher state park in Fort Bragg,Ca when a guy backed his car into the front of our car when my wife was on her way to the store. They both got out to see if there was any damage and it turned out the guy was our neighbor from right around the corner from us. We had never met before then.