How did we get here?

In case you haven’t had the opportunity to hear us tell it, here is a little ditty about who we are.  We joke that we are always in search of a more impossible job. The Celt, a firefighter and the Viking, a Sheriff’s Deputy both decided to leave those professions in search of something harder and more impossible. We decided to ramp it up a notch and join the federal response to disasters.  So, here goes the story.

First, we met by chance in 2014 in a godforsaken place called Anniston, Alabama, locked up behind a fence with only a prison bus as a mode of escape.  Ok, ok, it wasn’t that bad but sure seemed like it some days.  

So why would we subject ourselves to this kind of treatment you ask?  Well, we had both signed up to serve on impossible teams with impossible tasks, also known as Disaster Response.  The mission, help people recover after disasters.  Later that summer we parted ways as co-workers and we all thought we would see each other in the field. 

As circumstances would have it, a year later, the Viking was scheduled for some exciting and ground breaking training in Seattle.  Seriously…no, not seriously, it was training but it lacked the exciting and groundbreaking aspects.  Knowing he had co-workers (that he actually liked and respected) there, he met with several of the people from the Seattle team.  A brave Viking then asked an even braver Celt out for dinner, then drinks, then that became a deep friendship which turned into a love affair.  And, here we are, looking forward to many more adventures.

Oh, and we will be regaling our adventure to find the perfect Sazerac.  Our love of this classic drink has provided us with many great stories and we will be sharing them here so you can also find the places with the greatest Sazerac made around the world.