Born in Washington State, raised in New England, served in the Middle East. Kasey, her real first name is Kristen, has moved around!
Her first passion was ballet, and she danced her way in so many states, we won’t mention them all, but spent most of her youth in Upstate New York and New England. Her early adventures included camping for birthdays where her mother would bake the cake on a propane stove. She didn’t mind if the cake didn’t always turn out as she enjoyed being outdoors, fishing and bike riding.
While sixteen, her family hosted a foreign exchange student from Costa Rica. After the student’s year long visit, Kasey followed the house guest to Central America to live and got to school.
A couple more years brought graduation, but she was not college bound, as she enlisted in the United States Air Force. Her service became an adventure when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Turns out smoke from Oil Field Fires, Burn Pits, and exposure to Saran Gas does not do a body well, and the Air Force said good-bye and Kasey got introduced to the Veteran’s Administration.
Kasey would continue to move around landing in Indianapolis and working as a 9-1-1 Operator. This experience was filled with lots of stories. She also got the surprise of her son. Three years later, she would be blessed with a daughter, and a new job in the Prosecutor’s Office of Hendricks County, Indiana.
Her nest job would be in working in the courts of Hendricks County, and after a really sucky divorce, developed new routines, and went to school finish her Bachelor’s Degree.

Rodney was born and raised in Indiana, in and near Indianapolis. He started telling stories at a young age, just ask about the Church Story Time at his grandparent’s church.
The next thing to know about Rodney, is he likes to ride, starting out on motorcycles at the age of five. In addition, he grew up with his father buying motorcycle basket-cases, boxes of parts, re-building the motorized bikes, riding them to thoroughly test drive them, and then selling them. Rodney’s dad had a side gig before it was a thing.
For Christmas in his eight grade year, he got a thirty-five millimeter camera. With his best friend also getting a camera, they were two shutterbugs. The new found passion found them both as photo editors, the friend for the Junior High School Newspaper, and Rodney for the Yearbook.
For his Sophomore Year, Rodney entered Carmel High School, and studied Radio, then moved to Television, as the school had both a Radio and Television Station. He quickly realized that video was how he wanted to tell stories.
After earning both an Associate’s and a Bachelor’s Degree, he started his working career in Video Tape Duplication, which is not even a thing anymore, Cable Advertising, and a stint at the Indianapolis NBC Affiliate.
He says he settled in at the Public Broadcasting Station in Indianapolis, and while he worked there for 14 years, just four years in he was freelancing enough to start his own business, Digital Rain.
2008 was a year of big changes, in fact, in the year he turned forty, many would say he had a mid-life crisis. At the beginning of the year he ended the relationship he was in, resigned from his full time job to pursue his company, but he didn’t buy a shiny sports car, he all ready had a chrome clad motorcycle.
His birthday in August would bring him the greatest present of all, you might be able to guess who that was?

Kasey and Rodney were several hundreds of miles apart when they each went through high school. They would meet later in life, and the adventure started almost immediately.
Why not right off? Well, our first date didn’t go so well. That’s another story.
For the second date, I brought the motorcycle, and we went for a ride. Not only was a relationship starting, but we were embarking on a string of adventures.
Just year later, we flew the kids down to Florida to be with Kasey’s Parents, then we took off on two wheels headed to Hershey Pennsylvania. After a three day motorcycle rally, we made our way down the east coast to Florida. After a few days reuniting with her kids, we headed back to Indiana.
After that we went on a Caribbean Cruise, Spring Breaks in Wisconsin, and a whole year of living in Costa Rica. We returned to Danville, Indiana for a year, but things had changed, and Kasey got an opportunity to open a bakery in North Carolina.
The bakery didn’t work out, but we fell in love with the south, and decided to stay. I worked on building up my business, and we would marry ten years from the date we first talked to each other. After our daughter graduated from high school, we bought a home in Stanly County, North Carolina, near Badin Lake.
After a couple of times of the kids moving in and out, and Kasey’s parents dropping in for extended stays, the our 2600 square foot nest became very empty. It had also been over a decade since our year in Costa Rica, and Kasey was getting restless. So, the plan of going to Europe began to develop, and that is why we decided to start a place where we can chronicle our adventures.