Clearly, this calls for a pictorial comparison.
Not exactly the same thing, but I moved from Columbus Ohio 3 years ago. I was chatting with a girl in the office I now work in in LA and we discovered that we had lived one street away from each other in Columbus. So I very well might have run into her back in Ohio and just not realized it.
I bumped into an ex-girlfriend on the street while on holiday in Cabo San Lucas with my then-current girlfriend. That was a bit awkward, 'cuz we parted amicably enough. Under the circumstances, how long is an appropriate time to spend acknowledging the coincidence? (Under a minute was about all I could handle.)
I ran into an old college classmate (from western New York) at the top of Zion National Park’s Angel’s Landing in southern Utah.
I was in a dive hotel in the middle of the Amazon. As I was locking the door (don’t even know why I bothered), I saw some girl struggling to get her gear on her shoulders. So I helped her out and saw it was the girl that lived a block away for my whole childhood.
Maybe not so much. You two were travelling, his buddy was travelling, and tourists tend to go to the same places. I imagine every single day we have numerous tourists in town, who go to Disneyland then Universal Studios on two successive days.