Many of you already know our story but here it goes again in short. Alex and I met when he started working as a travel physical therapist at the clinic where I was working as a full time physical therapist just outside of Santa Fe, NM in Espanola, NM. I actually ended up there by taking a travel contract and loving it and staying on. I’m originally from Maryland and Alex is from Florida. Anyway, I was on my way out of a bad relationship at the time and my coworkers were so hopeful that Alex would be single so they could set us up… but he wasn’t. We did become friends and I took him skiing and hiking with other friends. Fast forward a few months. Alex moved on after his contract to Montana then Nevada and we stayed in touch. In June of 2020, we decided to meet up “somewhere between Nevada and New Mexico” and settled on Flaming Gorge, UT (we were also both single by then). We packed up a bunch of camping gear on our paddle boards and paddled all day to an isolated beach where we set up camp. That was the first of our big adventures… but we were also still just friends. When Alex finished his contract in Nevada, he decided to come visit me in New Mexico on his way back to see family in Florida. I was about to embark on a solo road trip and asked Alex if he wanted to join. He debated for just a bit then decided the night before to come along. We set off for our “first date” the next day. We drove through the San Juan’s of Colorado (always my favorite), to the Tetons where we went for an awesome backpacking adventure, through Yellowstone, and ended up in Red Lodge, MT. Needless to say, it was pretty amazing. Alex went back to Florida for a month after this trip then got a permanent, full time job in New Mexico and moved in with me the next month. We did spend almost a year in NM before starting to travel together. We’ve since worked in Florida, Arizona, and Alaska. We’ve really enjoyed our jobs in Alaska so we have been here since January 2022 with time off to visit my family in Maryland and his in Florida and to go on trips to Belize and Sicily. We most recently spend 5.5 weeks in Cefalu, Sicily where we got engaged! That was a lot! Haha. We both love the outdoors and travel and while we both enjoyed it all solo, sharing our adventures has been just so much better❤️ Sent from my iPhone