Years later

In 1993, Andy graduated from Livonia Churchill High School and moved to Houghton, Michigan to start classes at Michigan Technological University. At MTU he met Drew Sulkowski. A neighbor of Drew's from back home in Howell, Michigan started attending MTU one year later. Drew's neighbor was Randy Smith, Becki Smith's brother.

In the spring of 1997, Becki Smith made the 10-hour trek north (FYI: Andy's personal record still stands at 6 hours and 20 minutes...) to visit her brother and finally met Andy Bayley.

It may seem obvious where the story goes from here, but it actually went nowhere for the time being. Andy and Becki exchanged a few e-mails but eventually lost touch.

Andy and Randy stayed in contact after graduation though. In 2003 they bought Subaru Impreza WRX's just a couple months apart.

Soon after that, Randy joined a fun off-topic web forum and invited Andy to join. Becki was already a member there. Shortly after Andy joined the website, he and Becki were reunited.