Meeting the Warings

The world is such an interesting place.  As conventional wisdom says, "it's a small one, too" - or something like that.

We started up the trail toward the ridge above Yellowstone Lake and saw an older couple (older than us, anyway) looking through their binoculars at something in the woods.  We stopped and asked what they were seeing.   As we had thought, they are birders.

Amazingly enough, in our short conversation, we learned that:

- they had been in Milawi, Africa, as had our daughter Hannah.

- they lived in Juneau in the 1980's and Ms. Waring had come to Hoonah to do some census work - maybe having visited us at our house, although no-one could remember that detail.

- they had just spent some time in Ozello, Florida - where we have a friend with a house that we had stayed in for a long weekend.  The houses were nearly next to each other.

Huh, you figure it out.  Pretty amazing.  We really enjoyed them.  The photo is them checking out the view.

Much luck to the Warings.  It was great meeting you.