Ten years ago, the day after Travis' 21st Birthday and Gemma's first day home from her freshman year of college, we met at the Crockett pool. After dating all summer, Gemma drove back to San Luis Obispo to start her sophomore year. We had agreed that long distance relationships didn't work, and we were just going to be friends. Less than 24 hours later, Travis called to tell Gemma that even though long distance was going to be really hard he thought we should give it a shot. 9 years later, including 3 years of long distance, Gemma finally convinced Travis to join her on one of her international adventures. On March 14, 2019, while driving over Priests Leap in Ireland, Travis asked Gemma to marry him. She of course said... "WHAT THE F***?!" A few tears, a lot of laughing and "are you kidding me's?!" later we're pretty sure the word yes was said too.