On November 2, 2017 my best friend Olivia and I decided to take a day trip to the coast for my 30th birthday. As we're driving down HWY 126 in the drizzling rain my bestie sees this really handsome man hitchhiking, but going the opposite way. We stop and she tells him that we were headed to the coast but he's welcome to join and we'd take him back to Eugene afterward. He agrees and puts his pack in the back of my car. I look back as he's loading his things and see him for the first time. My bestie and I both simultaneously said "Yummy!" Casey ended up camping in the rain with us all weekend and we've been inseparable ever since.