Our story begins on October 16, 2021 with a coffee and a walk along the Chicago River. We have continued to walk together through California, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, plus Crete, Loire Valley, Normandy, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Versailles. We’ve ridden bikes around half those places and eaten our way through all of them, at some of the tastiest restaurants. We’ve walked to baseball & football games. We laugh together everyday and support each other through the good times and also the more difficult times.

“Progress not perfection” is an important tenet of our nurturing relationship.