It is funny how you meet a complete stranger and before you know it, he/she knows someone you know.
While fishing at Cape Canaveral, my DW got talking to a couple. Before we knew it, we find that both of us know Tracy (thdoc).
When we stopped at a rest area in South Carolina, DW got talking to a couple from Maine. Seems that they were friends of ChasD (one or our moderators) and his dad.
While camping in PA, the couple next to us were from Errol, NH. They knew some friends of ours that live in New London, NH.
All of this has come about in the past month or so
Anyone else had experiences like these while camping?
Sure......everytime we camp, we proudly display our "SCCAMPERS" flag at our campsite. Sure as anything, someone will come up and ask if the rest of the group is with us. :yikes:
Our reputation has spread far and wide. Every policeman that goes by will know one or the other of us by name. In fact, they are kind enough to post a few of our pictures......promently displayed near the mail room. Seems like they always want us back......
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Some campgrounds like us so much, they seem willing to pay us to come back
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Sure has....and, I've found that the older one gets, the smaller the world!
Quote from: waverySure......everytime we camp, we proudly display our "SCCAMPERS" flag at our campsite. Sure as anything, someone will come up and ask if the rest of the group is with us. :yikes:
That's amazing that the South Carolina Campers are that well known that far away! :eyecrazy:
It is funny how you meet a complete stranger and before you know it, he/she knows someone you know
well, last year we went to the outer banks for vacation. I met a person camped several sites away and started to chat. Come to find out that he was located in the town just 5 miles from me. He asked if he could bring the family (wife) over for a camp fire and meet her. Sure I said.... Well to make a long story short, he shows up with my x--wife!!!! needless to say, we nixxed the camp fire and didn't run into them again!! whew!!!!
Just last year my family and I were camping in N.C. (about 2 hours away from home). The family camping next to us looked fairly familiar. Turns out the DH works at the same hospital I do (I work for SC 2nd largest employer). He is married to someone I worked with years ago at another hospital.
Small small world
Quote from: flyfishermanThat's amazing that the South Carolina Campers are that well known that far away! :eyecrazy:
What is "South Carolina" :confused:
Quote from: waveryWhat is "South Carolina" :confused:
A really smelly place with alot of mobile homes and junk cars just south of North Carolina. But they do have "Pedro's South of The Border"
Quote from: McCampersBut they do have "Pedro's South of The Border"
Yup, and we stayed in their cg on our way home. Unfortunately we arrived right after a downpour. We had lakefront property. Had to take the shoes off and put on the Teva's to set up. Some of the sites were completely under water.
Still like the place for a one nighter on the way home but they went up $5 from last year. They are $22 a night. Clean bathrooms and cg. Some funky shops to kill a couple of hours and a couple of decent restaurants.
The cg is used by a lot of snowbirds going South or coming North.
Quote from: ltrcrrIt is funny how you meet a complete stranger and before you know it, he/she knows someone you know
well, last year we went to the outer banks for vacation. I met a person camped several sites away and started to chat. Come to find out that he was located in the town just 5 miles from me. He asked if he could bring the family (wife) over for a camp fire and meet her. Sure I said.... Well to make a long story short, he shows up with my x--wife!!!! needless to say, we nixxed the camp fire and didn't run into them again!! whew!!!!
I'm sure you didn't think so at the time but that is pretty funny. What are the odds????
Yep - we have had this happen, too. We were camping in Colorado Springs in the late '60s. It was late afternoon when a guy on motorcycle pulled up and commented on the Iowa plates on the camper. Iowa still used numbers to indicate the county back then and he recognized our home area from that. He and my parents started talking and he said, "My wife's sister lives in the neighboring county." (actually, we did too - had borrowed the pop-up from friends for the trip). It turned out that the sister was from our little town AND a very good friend of the family. An hour or so later he was back - and invited us to come to their house as his wife wanted to meet us. We spent a very enjoyable evening meeting new friends.
We went to Mt. Rushmore in the off season (Sep) a few years ago. We homeschool our kids so our schedule is more flexible. While we were in one of the buildings at Mt. Rushmore our oldest daughter recognized another little girl and they started talking. Ended up being another home school family that lives about a mile from our house and we had met them before. It just seemed so unusual because very few people were even at Mt. Rushmore that day.
Quote from: ltrcrrIt is funny how you meet a complete stranger and before you know it, he/she knows someone you know
well, last year we went to the outer banks for vacation. I met a person camped several sites away and started to chat. Come to find out that he was located in the town just 5 miles from me. He asked if he could bring the family (wife) over for a camp fire and meet her. Sure I said.... Well to make a long story short, he shows up with my x--wife!!!! needless to say, we nixed the camp fire and didn't run into them again!! whew!!!!
Sorry to laugh but that is TOOOO funny! :yikes:
I have met people from my area camping, but the most surprising place I met someone I know, was in Honduras. It wasn't a camping trip, we were on a scuba diving trip and ran into someone I knew from Meyerstown, PA.:)