We got serious about starting a coffee company within the first few months of our marriage. We were married six months after meeting in the fall of ‘07. We sold a car. We used the money to move to Eugene OR and spent a year discovering the coffee culture of the Pacific Northwest. Toward the end of our time in Oregon we sold our other car and bought an espresso machine. We shipped it home, and without a vehicle, we pedaled ourselves twenty two hundred miles back to Oklahoma. It was an adventure to say the least.

Back in Guthrie, Oklahoma in the Summer of 2010 we began to work strange jobs so we could spend our free time working on an old garage that would later become our cafe and roastery. Together we worked jobs like: bus driver, certified nurse aid, high school teachers aid, snow-cone stand attendant, lawn care service and the local doughnut shop.

We started working on the old ‘Willie’s Tire’ garage in the Fall of 2010. We had just returned from our year in Oregon and were ready to get the ball rollin’ on what felt like a distant dream. We started looking at buildings in the OKC Plaza District and Victorian buildings in Downtown Guthrie when we stumbled upon this old garage. It was hidden, dirty, full of junk, and otherwise completely impractical to be used as a cafe *we had to have it*. There were no lights, no electric, no water, no heat and air, and no bathroom. It was a dingy old garage but it had a beautiful wood ceiling - and we had a vision.