Vanessa Foster was stranded in the middle of Alaska when a stranger stopped to give her a ride — and changed her life. This is her story.
When Vanessa Foster found herself stranded in Alaska, a stranger with bright blue eyes stopped to give her a lift.Being stranded in the middle of nowhere, Alaska was not what Vanessa Foster imagined when she decided to leave behind her life in Texas. But that's exactly where she found herself one chilly evening in 1985.
"I hopped out, rushed over to the ladies room, and when I came out a few minutes later, my husband was exiting the men's room," Foster remembered."And we locked eyes, and we looked over at the parking lot, and [the] hitchhiker and our truck were gone." As they walked down the highway, none of the cars slowed down to pick them up. Finally, an El Camino pulled over. Sitting in the driver's seat was a middle-aged man with bright blue eyes. He told them to hop in.
Foster says the man's kindness in picking them up restored her faith in humanity. And it didn't stop there. When he heard the couple was unemployed, he offered them summer jobs and a place to stay on his ranch near Homer, Alaska. They gladly accepted.
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