Tennessee, a state that can be easily overlooked if you are a south Georgia boy or a California girl, yet some how Valerie and Geraldo both ended up at The University of Tennessee. As a young high school football player Geraldo made many spontaneous and sometimes unexplainable decisions. Deciding to go to UT instead of Clemson, like he had planned, was one of them. Valerie completed an associates degree at Long Beach City College and immediately felt like she needed a change of scenery. It seemed that there was no better place to be but a school almost completely across the country, in a state that no one in her family had visited before. Although both of their decisions seemed crazy at the time each path lead them to each other and that has made their adventures more than worth it.