In 2021, I posted a TikTok video of myself leaving a note on a crusty, local Volkswagen Pickup - an early eighties mini-truck that I’ve always wanted. Ten hours and almost 250,000 views later, I realized that I had picked a scab with the Internet. Followers, likes and comments flooded-in by the hundreds as people reminisced about the truck; recalling the best of times and experiences but ultimately landing at, “Wow… I really hope you get this thing.”

Although ultimately that initial truck wasn’t for sale, that evening, I received a message from a friend that read, “If you come out to Washington, I can hook you up with one.” So, 1 plane ticket, 2,500 miles, a lot of coffee, and a few (more than a few) breakdowns later, I finally got my 1980 Sunbrite Yellow Rabbit home… and the rest was history.