Nearly five years ago, a Jersey Shore boy was scrolling through his Instagram feed when he came across an Ozarks girl… As he scrolled through her photos it became crystal-clear that he was looking at a kind of girl that he had never seen before. She snowboards? Check. She skateboards? Check. She loves Super Cross and NASCAR? Check. Wait one minute... am I seeing this right? Is that a picture of her surfing?!?! Yes! CHECK!!!! Undeterred by the distance between them, he (very politely) sent her a private message with his phone number asking her to call him if, “By chance you don’t have someone special in your life”. Intrigued, she called… A few weeks later, the boy was sitting at the Denver airport baggage claim waiting for the girl’s plane to arrive and hoping there would be love. There certainly was… A whirlwind courtship ensued and four-months later he quit his job, packed up his truck and made the 1200 mile journey to Missouri. At first look, most wondered how this would ever work. Could a New Jersey-born surfer give up his beloved ocean for a 2nd-floor walkup in downtown Kansas City? Could a small-town Iowa girl ever learn to understand that Jersey accent?! OF COURSE THEY COULD! Tracie introduced Josh to small plates, Indian food and wakeboarding. Josh taught Tracie about guns, dirt bikes and pork roll. The list went on... Josh discovered Sloppy Joes and pork steaks. Tracie learned the difference between a Shoobie and a Benny (no offense intended). Since then, they’ve moved to the Ozarks full-time and live in their dream home on the water’s edge. They have found new mountains to ride down and new breaks to surf but will always remember what brought them together... Love.