Kiara and Barry were two recent guests from places that were not too exotic. (At least, not to us!)
Kiara is from Montreal - less than 400 miles east along Highway 401.
Barry (originally from Scotland) now lives in Guelph, Ontario only about an hour and a half west of Toronto. He has been here in Canada for about nine years.
They met seven long years ago when they were both employed at a Backpacker’s Inn in Nelson. B.C. They were colleagues and pretty good friends.
Over the years, as many experienced, travelers know, you meet a lot of interesting people and over time lose contact with like the proverbial “ships-in-the-night”.
But it happens less and less these days with the advent of the Internet. It has made information much more accessable and the world mch smaller.
They two reconnected after seven years by using Facebook. They decided to meet in Toronto and make a short holiday out of their reunion.
Barry and Kiara’s reconnection occurred long after the hostel where they both worked and met has disappeared. But it speaks to our constant theme in this blog that hostel’s really are a place where enduring friendships are very often made.
