We got an email this afternoon from a traveler named Christopher, who found our sticker while walking through one of the most unlikely areas of suburban Kanagawa. I placed the sticker during one of my trademark Kanagawa Constitutionals, at a particularly low point in my experience in Japan. I was horribly unhappy that day, and walked for about an hour to an unimportant overpass in an unknown and unloved part of Kawasaki City, where I placed the sticker to commemorate that particularly bad time.

Eight months later, Chris found my sticker.

More amazing still, as I sat in Jen’s office in Sultanahmet today, his email arrived in my inbox. I was telling Jen the story when I followed a link to his website to find his most recent entry about visiting Calgary, Alberta (Jen’s hometown).

Even more amazing than that: one of the pictures in the frontpage photo array is an image of Jen’s office building.

Yeah. Seriously.

So to Chris– thanks for tracking us down, and whether you wanted to or not, you’ve shared a very personal moment in my story.