“Money lives in New York. Power sits in Washington. Freedom sips cappuccino at a sidewalk café in San Francisco.” – JF

Did we meet at a sidewalk café in SF sipping cappuccino? Of course not; but in 2009, an escape from reality was definitely something we were both hoping to find. We each had our struggles; each on a different path in life. Whether it be the rigors of a doctoral curriculum with the usual sleep deprivation and late night take-out or just the nightly ritual of worrying about the families we had left behind. We both pondered the “what if’s” of an alternate journey, one more transparent and a "hella" lot easier. Still, as we now enter 2017, one thing is certain, we would go through all of that again in heartbeat. We would have never met otherwise….