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Tell about some of your most unexpected scenarios you've experienced through travelling.
For example, I saw someone with an Andorra passport once. Granted, this was in BCN airport...but still.
This January I was flying back home from Madrid to Toronto. The airport was basically empty as it was about 5AM. As I was walking towards my gate, I saw one single man sitting at a row of chairs. As I got closer I saw the man make a 'no way' kind of face. Turns out, it was an Australian guy I met and hung out with lots in a hostel in Tulum, Mexico last April. He still hadn't returned home and was on his way to Thailand for a month.
Once when taking Super Shuttle to get from Washington DC to Baltimore I got to talking to another passenger in the van. Turns out she was a co-worker of my sister's back on the West Coast.
Once when taking Super Shuttle to get from Washington DC to Baltimore I got to talking to another passenger in the van. Turns out she was a co-worker of my sister's back on the West Coast.
One time I started out in Bangkok, changed planes in Tokyo, changed planes again in Minneapolis, then flew to DC, and then took a SuperShuttle home. One of the other passengers in the SuperShuttle van was on the same plane I flew on out of Bangkok.
Well I don't remember any of my own. But some cousins of mine encountered distant relatives of theirs by chance when changing flights at an airport in town that none of lived in and these people hadn't been in contact for many years.
A few years ago, I decided to go travel around Honduras for a while. I had found local people to stay with via couchsurfing.org, and when I arrived into one particular city I had a bit of time to kill before meeting my host. I decided to go hang out at a random bar that was mentioned in my guidebook while I waited for her to get off work. I met a small contingent of Americans who were employed teaching English at a nearby school—a bit of a coincidence, but not too surprising, as I think a lot of expats hang out at that bar. We got to chatting, and it turned out that they knew the woman I was going to stay with, and her teenage sister was in some of their classes. Now I should mention that this was a city of 200,000 plus inhabitants, so it’s not as though everyone there knows everyone else. Weird, right? Well, that’s not even the strangest part! One of the teachers was from Indiana, but his family went camping every year in a state park a few miles from my teeny-tiny Minnesota hometown! And for the record, I'm not talking about a park that is nationally--or even regionally--famous. I am talking about the kind of place where the local girl scouts and church youth groups would go to camp out and that's about it.
I’ve had other weird coincidences while traveling, but that one takes the cake!
A group of relatives from Colorado went to Florida for a funeral. While walking on the beach my landscaper brother-in-law saw a woman who walks her dog daily past a property he frequently tends to in Colorado. We thought he was lying but apparently not.
I was in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for a music festival this past January, and after checking into a few places on Facebook, a girl from Perth, Australia whom I shared a hostel and partied with in Prague, Cz two years prior realized we were in the same town, and contacted me. We later met up for dinner that night.
I was in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for a music festival this past January, and after checking into a few places on Facebook, a girl from Perth, Australia whom I shared a hostel and partied with in Prague, Cz two years prior realized we were in the same town, and contacted me. We later met up for dinner that night.
That is crazy!
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