It is quite common to run into the same travellers over and over again when you are visiting a fairly small town. In Chiang Rai, I kept running into Harold (guy with the rented scooter) on the street or market, as well as the couple of Québécois. Nothing too weird here since everybody goes to the same streets at about the same time for food, coffee, and so on.
But what is stranger is running into someone you’ve met weeks or months earlier, in a completely different country! In early January I met Samira, a young American woman, in Kalaw (Burma). We did an organized hike together and found out that we were staying in the same hotel. She was travelling south, and I was travelling north, so after a few days we said our goodbyes and did not keep in touch.
About two weeks later, after I flew back to Bangkok, whom do I see on the Don Muang train station platform, waiting for the night train to Chiang Mai? Samira! She had also just flown back to Bangkok (from a different Burmese city) and we had booked tickets on the same train!
It is quite common to run into the same travellers over and over again when you are visiting a fairly small town. In Chiang Rai, I kept running into Harold (guy with the rented scooter) on the street or market, as well as the couple of Québécois. Nothing too weird here since everybody goes to the same streets at about the same time for food, coffee, and so on.
But what is stranger is running into someone you’ve met weeks or months earlier, in a completely different country! In early January I met Samira, a young American woman, in Kalaw (Burma). We did an organized hike together and found out that we were staying in the same hotel. She was travelling south, and I was travelling north, so after a few days we said our goodbyes and did not keep in touch.
About two weeks later, after I flew back to Bangkok, whom do I see on the Don Muang train station platform, waiting for the night train to Chiang Mai? Samira! She had also just flown back to Bangkok (from a different Burmese city) and we had booked tickets on the same train!
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