Last month, we wrote about a woman in Rob’s yoga class who told him she was leaving South Florida for her home in a small town in Maine. The woman on the mat next to her looked up and said she was also from that town. They didn’t know each other, but quickly found out they had friends in common.
This morning (4/25) just before that same class began, a woman was talking in an animated way about her cabin in Boone, North Carolina. That caught Rob’s attention, because right after class we were heading to Boone, N.C. where we would be staying at a friend’s cabin. After class, he mentioned the synchronicity to the woman. She replied that her cabin was actually closer to Banner Elk, a town of 900 people about 18 miles from Boone, a college town of about 14,000. Rob smiled and told her that was actually the closest town to where we were headed as well. What were the chances?
When we left on the trip a couple of hours later, we stopped at a gas station a few miles from home. As we pulled up to a pump, a man stepped out of a nearby car. He wore a blue t-shirt emblazoned with one word: CAROLINA.
Ray Getzinger tried to post his comment here and…well, I’ll let him explain. Here’s his email:
I tried to comment. I’m using my mini computer at Starbucks. Couldn’t so here is my comment on Travel Synchronicity:
I had a college instructor who got told the class about her husband’s home town, Moses Lake, WA, my home town. After she spoke to her husband we found out that her husband and my brother had been on the same high school track team.
Travel and places! Was the new person Canadian?
That’s very cool.
I have lots of syncronicity with my home town of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, pop. 6,000. Lots of people know it, have relatives there. It’s mentioned in popular fiction including the English Patient. John Irving knows it too.
One of the more recent ones – I was at my friends house and I was introduced to someone new. She asked where I was from and I told her – well it’s one of those places where everybody knows somebody from there. So she pushed me a little more and I told her. “Parry Sound”. “Really” she said “that’s where my best friend comes from.”