Chance meeting in Canada
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Between 1997 and 2003 I traveled around the world on my bicycle. When I was in Dakar, Senegal, people told me about a bar there that was owned by a Belgian, called The Blue Moon. Naturally, I went over there one evening and had a few beers with the owner. Two and a half years later I'm in the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, it's freezing cold outside and I decide to not sleep in my tent that night but instead pick a random farmhouse and ask if I can sleep in the hay shed. A man opens the door, and after listening to my story we both have the faint impression that we've met each other before. The man turns out to be the same owner of that bar in Dakar, who had sold his bar the year previously and moved to Canada.
Date submitted:Thu, 17 May 2012 12:27:03 +0000Coincidence ID:6343
