Remote Encounter

In the mid 1980's I was living in Hemel Hempstead Herts. An American man came to the town for a few weeks to work in a local firm. He was from Virginia. A few of my friends from our Church knew he was lonely at weekends so we took it in turns to invite him to our homes. I did get to know him well enough to send Christmas cards for a few years. In 1991 together with my daughter we were visiting my aunt, who lived in a very small place called Norway which is on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This particular day we decided to drive about 200 miles to visit the Tahquamenon Falls State Park. After about 4 hours of travelling and rarely seeing another vehicle we arrived at a very lonely parking area.. There was one other car in the car park. My aunt said to me,"Every time you go on holiday you always bump into someone you know, whats the chance of you knowing the owner of that car?" We looked at this other car and laughed.As we started climbing the path a couple were coming down towards us. I became very excited saying "I can't believe this". My aunt turned to my daughter and said," your Mother will be very embarrassed in a minute when she realises that she does not know these people coming towards us". My daughter said," She knows them". It was the man from Virginia with his wife. After much laughter and disbelief it transpired that they were on holiday in this remote area. We saw know one else on that trip.