We cross the continental divide to travel one mile.

Camping next to a family from Ferndale can now be looked at as a curious coincidence. Last night we checked into our campground at Flagg Ranch in the Grand Tetons after traveling through the 9,658 Togwotee Pass. Traveling along US 20/26 brought our first significant VW camper siting. Two groups of 3 VW passed us within a few minutes of each other while heading east: a Splitie, bay window Westfalia, Vanagon Westfalia; followed by a double cab, splittie, and another Vanagon Westfalia. Only the Vanagons waved back. Must be an air cooled / water cooled thing.

Anyway, back to the check-in. We drove up to the visitor center, and Kristin went to check in. After she went into the building a couple on bicycles rode up to the building. Kristin chatted with them, and they told Kristin they rode 67 miles on un-paved roads that day.

It turns out we needed to check in at the campground office, so we headed there in the RV. While Kristin checked in I noticed the couple and we started chatting. They are riding the continental divide, starting in Calgary and they will end their trip somewhere in Colorado.

The woman asks me: “Hey, are you from Maryland, too?”

Me: “Yes, we are. Where in Maryland are you from?”

“Annapolis”

That's funny. "Where in Annapolis are you from”

“Cape St. Claire.”

No way. "Where in the Cape?”

“River Bay Road”

“Wait, we live on River Bay Road. We are at the end of Cape St. Claire Road”

“We live down at the other end.”

The conversation continues and the woman mentions her daughter. That's why she looks so familiar – her daughter is Farrah Hall, an Olympic windsurfer that lives next to my friend Russ. And she looks like her daughter – go figure. Cue “It's a Small World” theme for the next 12 hours. The randomness of being in the same campground, not just the same park, checking in at the same incorrect building, at the same time is hard to wrap my head around. I saw them the next day while I was getting coffee, and they were preparing to head on down the road. I took some pictures and I hope to post one on their daughter's FB page. Can't seem to do that from the mobile app. She'll be surprised for sure! God speed, fellow Capers!