"No family or kids?" He was asking such basic things to get some kind of feel for who she was. It should have been more obvious than that but it had been a long time since he had run into anyone he knew.
"No, I'm not. I'm headed up to Pennsylvania." He liked the countryside. He'd lived there for five years some time ago, so even though he had moved to the city about 6 months ago he liked going back to visit his old hometown.