His disappearing from the face of the earth was an indication of mental illness/mental instability, no one knew where he was, not his state security detail, not his wife, nor staff, not the Lt. Governor, or anyone else in the govt. (or private sector).
In this day of terrorism and with his presidential aspirations, searchers found his car abandoned, found out that his staff was making up the hiking story trying to cover for him without actually knowing anything, his cell phone was off, and an American Governor was missing for almost a week, until he suddenly showed up at an airport, and it was learned that he had been alone, in a foreign country, with no one in America knowing what had happened.