Hi All:
I'm hoping to solicit some advice about where a host's responsibiity to a guest's safety when the guest is away from the listing begins/ends.
My current guest has decided to walk a 40 km trail today and has already left to do so. She did not inform me about when she would be going, but, because she asked me to arrange a ride to her starting point, I know that today is the day, as the ride has let me know that he dropped her off.
This trail is part of the Trans-Canada Trail, and is quite remote - it's an old railway bed, cut through the bush. I have been made aware that there are sometimes quite sketchy people to be found wandering around out there and it seems that other trail users can be few and far between. Also, there has been a good amount of flooding locally, and I don't know if the trail is affected.Plus, Canadian animals wake up hungry this time of year. In short, I am a little concerned for her safety.
I wanted to message her just to ask that she let me know when she arrives back, but then I worried that doing so might be taken as an invasion of her privacy...especially since she hadn't felt it necessary to let me know that she was going ahead with it. (She didn't respond to my message that I had found her a ride). It seems such a basic, human thing to ask, but some folks (and it seems this guest in particular) are very private people, who may interpret my concern as nosiness or as controlling, and might be upset by my asking for their "comings and goings".
Where do you think a host's responsibility ends? Is it any of my business? What would you do?