Jake and I met on 9/4/21 at a Dart Bar called Point and Feather in downtown Chicago. I was in town from Michigan visiting one of my best friends (Lyndsey Kubbe) and Jake was in town visiting his friends from Northern California. I was playing a game called "Odds" which involves completing a dare if you lose. I don't lose often, but this time when I did, Lyndsey dared me to ask to shoot someone's shot in their game of darts.

I scanned the room for who might be an easy ask, as I saw Jake with a full sweat-suit, hood up and hat on, I thought, "this guy is easy going, he will definitely let me". I walked right up to him and asked if I could take his shot, of course he said yes and I threw the dart.. it did not even stick to the board which was funny. We got to talking and immediately clicked! Jake hailed us a light-up bike taxi around town after that and we stayed connected over endless, texts, phone calls and FaceTimes.

I made my first visit to Napa later that month (which was a HUGE leap of faith) and I think we both knew after that, this was something special. We traveled non-stop visiting each other in the months to come, until we finally decided to take yet another leap and I moved to Napa in July of 2022.

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