Falling Through the Ice, Motorcycle Mischief, and Following Your Dreams – A True Northwoods Love Story
February 13, 2019
Happy Valentine’s Day, you outdoorsy love birds! Whether you subscribe to the holiday or not, I think we can all appreciate a good love story, which is exactly what I’ve got for you today – a love story filled with adventure and wilderness.
I’d like you to meet the wilderness power couple, Matt and Cassidy of Voyageur Canoe Outfitters.
Matt and Cassidy have been my neighbors across the Seagull River since they started working together at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters in 2016. Now, the newly engaged couple manage the daily operation of the outfitter business, year round.
Compared to most millennials, these two lead a unique lifestyle in the wilderness of Northern Minnesota. As you can imagine, I was tickled when they agreed to share some of their stories with me for this blog.
Enjoy!
Alright, it’s Valentine’s Day, your first as an engaged couple! You’ve got to tell us your love story! How’d you two meet?
Matt: Well it depends on who you ask. We met in Duluth, Minnesota, where we both went to college. We met through a mutual friend.
Cassidy: It was the usual “how you meet people in college” situation. So that’s how we met as friends. Matt was 19 and I was 20, but he looked so much older with the beard and the hair. When I met him, he’d always wear this tie-dye bandana…he was so cute.
Matt: Then we kinda chased each other back and forth for four years.
Cassidy: We were best friends. He was the person I went to for everything, even guy problems. Becoming friends first definitely shaped our relationship a ton.
And then I moved! I moved to Europe for 9 months so I said to Matt, “you’re my best friend but I’ve got to go live my life.” He’ll always say he chased me during those times but we didn’t ever actually talk about it. I knew he was in love with me but couldn’t admit it.
Matt: It was that unspoken thing…everybody knew but we didn’t talk about it. She had a boyfriend for the first two years of our friendship and then she moved to Europe.
Cassidy: But we wrote letters back and forth forever. I remember getting so excited every time a letter would come! He’d send me fun things like an agate or a feather from a dreamcatcher he made, which I taped in my journal.
And then half way through my study abroad program, he met someone.
Matt: But this was after I had written her and finally told her, “I like you a lot…this is how I feel,” basically spilling my heart out for three pages and then she didn’t really say anything back. She wouldn’t address it.
Cassidy: He put himself out there but timing is everything, always, and it wasn’t right. We remained friends though, no matter what. That was always the bottom line, “Our friendship will stand, no matter what!”
Matt: Talk about bad timing, right before she moved back from Europe I met a girl. So it was a little awkward for a while because my feelings towards her had all been put on the table but we never talked about it in person and then I was dating someone else. Hanging out was tough.
Cassidy: My heart would beat so fast at get togethers with friends thinking, “Is he going to be there!?” Because at this point, I knew I was in love with him and I wanted to be with him if he decided he didn’t want to be with this other girl. So I gave him time.
Matt: Maybe six months later, I was single again, living with a bunch of friends.
Cassidy: It was the best summer of my life. Matt was single and we had all our friends in one place.
Matt: All the guys had just bought Harley’s so it was the summer of legal drinking and motorcycle riding and mischief.
Cassidy: It was the best time ever! We started dating on the 4th of July of that summer (2015).
We had a pact to go rock skipping, some random pact we had made while I was in Europe. So on the 4th of July we were at the beach on Lake Superior, rock skipping.That’s when he asked me to be his girlfriend! Three years later, we’re now engaged!
So when did you two leave the city and make the leap to working for Voyageur Canoe Outfitters, together?
Matt: That fall I made the big change. I was working full time as a mechanic in Duluth, living paycheck to paycheck. I had a 401K and health benefits but I was sick of it. I was walking around the office looking at all these guys who had worked there for over ten years and they’re all 40-year-olds who look like their 65 and angry.
Meanwhile, my boss from previous summers working at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters was teasing me a lot, saying, “when are you going to quit your job and come back?”
So, one day, I said, “Do you actually want me to quit my job?” His answer was “yes”. He was looking for new managers and wanted me to do the job.
One day I was on lunch break and decided to call him and take the job. Three days later, I put in my two weeks notice!
Cassidy: So he came home and basically said, “I love ya babe but I’m moving!” At this point
Voyageur Canoe Outfitters ended up hiring us as a pair for the manager position. So I thought, “Ok I guess I’m managing a canoe outfitter.” It was a huge leap of faith. I never thought that would be something I would end up doing but I’ve learned SO much!
Tell us about your roles. What is a normal day like for you both, working at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters?
Cassidy: I’m the front face, I greet guests, I talk to them on the phone, I get them
We’re in charge of 8-10 staff.
Matt: As far as day to day operations go, literally everything you see from a-z – ordering food, ordering gear, packing out trips, operating the entire resort.
Cassidy: We work 7am to 7pm every single day all summer. We don’t take days off. But it all equals out in the winter when we can take two weeks off to go to Iceland, like we did this year.
Matt: Cass keeps me in check. If she didn’t keep an eye on me I’d probably work from 6 am until midnight every day.
Cassidy: But we get to meet so many cool people too. Our favorite guests come through and it’s instant smiles all around. We look forward to those guests coming every year so we can catch up.
Matt: I think the biggest thing is (and it’s what I tell all of our staff), whatever day it is for us it’s the first day of vacation for our guests. It’s such a unique line of work!
However, we disagree with the line, “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” If you put in 80 or 90 hours a week you realize it’s work. But this is a huge passion for us and we wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. We love what we do.
Have you always been such an outdoorsy power couple?
Matt: No! I didn’t start doing Boundary Waters trip until I started working at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters in 2013, so I was 19. I’ve always been a camper though. And Cass was always the “travel bug” girl.
Cassidy: I just loved to go, see everything I can! When I was little, I used to go canoe with my mom on our river but that’s the extent of it. I had never really camped that much. Matt and I have learned so much together and we’re still learning.
What would your advice be to couples who want to incorporate more of the outdoors into their relationship or maybe break into the outdoor industry?
Cassidy: Take the leap!
Matt: I think that’s the biggest thing. So many people say things like, “oh next year” and “it’s a bucket list item”
Cassidy: It doesn’t have to be on a bucket list. It’s not something you do once and cross it off. This is a lifestyle. You can go camping every year.
And it’s so much bigger than that. Being outdoors is for your soul.
Matt: Also, know that you can’t go from not doing it to this Patagonia wearing professional. You’re going to have to suffer a little. We all do. You’re going to have to take the 80-pound pack and be like, “Wow, that was really stupid. I’m gonna do it differently next time.”
While so many millennials are choosing corporate jobs in big cities, why have you chosen this unconventional way of life in the remote wilderness?
Matt: We’ve been doing it for several years now so it doesn’t seem like our lifestyle is unique but when you say it out loud I realize it is.
But with the whole big corporate thing, we have employees that we really want to come back but they get into their 20’s and feel they need to get the corporate job with the steady income.
I think following your dreams is huge and if that’s it then that’s great but if you’re stuck in a desk job and miserable….
Cassidy: Don’t get the job for the money! It’s never about the money and it just shouldn’t be. We wouldn’t be here if we were looking to be millionaires.
Matt: Definitely do not get into the outdoor industry to be rich. Definitely do it to be rich in perks and life experience, which I value so much more than money. But I think people are afraid to take that leap.
Have you had any “close calls” in the winter?
Cassidy: Yes! It’s kind of an embarrassing story because we were out on the ice for fun. We just wanted to be in a canoe, you know? We had spent all winter cooped up.
There was this tiny little patch of open water on the river so we thought, “let’s put a canoe in it!”
Matt: It was 65 degrees that day in April. We were outside in sweatshirts and rain boots wanting to get on the water.
Cassidy: We totally had cabin fever!
Matt: We put two Royalex canoes in the water and were using our paddles to break ice. Then we would get the front of the canoe up on a weak part of the ice and Cass would jump up and down to break it.
My brother convinced us to get out of the canoe and put one foot on the ice and one in the canoe to break the ice with our foot then jump back in the canoe. It worked for quite a while.
Cassidy: We had a pretty good section of ice broken so we were ripping back-and-forth in the canoe, having a blast.
Matt: We were wearing lifejackets, of course, but all it took was one simple mistake. I was going to break a piece of ice with my foot but my leg went too far down. I went to get back in the boat but ended up grabbing both gunnels of the canoe. That’s where it went bad and both of us went
Cassidy: It was an instant shock! I couldn’t breathe or figure out what was going on. Then I saw Matt trying to get out and I realized, “That’s what I’m supposed to do.”
So I started crawling on the ice and it broke and broke again. It was so discouraging. He got out before I did, which made it way harder for me. I kept thinking, “Oh my god, please help me. Come pull me out.” But he couldn’t.
Matt: The ice was so sharp our forearms were bleeding from grabbing at the ice with all your might.
Cassidy: I thought I was going to die!
Matt: Once I got up, I belly crawled quite a ways and then I had to stand there watching Cass trying to make it.
Cassidy: We made eye contact and I was thought, “Oh my god, he’s out…he can get me out.” I wasn’t thinking clearly. All he could do is say, “Cass, I can’t. You have to do this on your own. There’s nothing any of us can do for you.” So I had to get to a point where I said, “Ok I’m gonna get out on my own. I’m gonna figure it out”
Matt: I’m thankful that it happened though because we got to experience the shock of it in a somewhat controlled setting being so close to home with friends there.
Cassidy, in the male dominated outdoor industry, what would your advice be to women who want more wilderness experiences in their lives?
Cassidy: The main thing is confidence! Having confidence in yourself because if you have confidence in yourself to go camping, you’ll go camping. Having confidence that you can learn what you need to.
We often get challenged more than men and sometimes it makes me mad. People walk in and trust Matt right away. But on the flipside, I’m happy because I have to try harder so ultimatley I’m bettering myself.
For example, if you don’t trust me to to tell you which cove is the best to go fishing in, that’s fine but I am going to learn that and I’m going to be right and I’m going to give you the information. You may go ask Matt but he’s going to tell you the same thing.
Matt: We’ve totally teamed up on that too. A lot of times I can hear people ask her those questions, and she tells them exactly the same thing I would’ve. So when they come ask me I can tell them what Cass just said.
Cassidy: You have to believe in yourself then go pick up the canoe or the pack or the fishing pole and keep doing it until it gets easier.
What’s the number one lesson this wilderness way of life has taught you both?
Matt: Anything in this world is possible if you put your mind to it! I think anyone could do just about anything but so many people underestimate themselves. Living in the wilderness has taught me that I can do just about anything if I put in the time and dedication.
Cassidy: I’ve learned that you don’t need a lot of “things”. That was a huge change for me. We’ve become minimalists without realizing it because you just don’t need as much stuff here and we also don’t have the space for it. Instead we’re big believers in fewer but better quality gear.
Let’s end with a few rapid-fire questions!
What’s the biggest fish you’ve each caught?
Cassidy: Matt’s the biggest fish I’ve caught. (Awwwwwww)
Matt: A 36.5 inch Lake Trout. It was close to 25 years old!
What’s your favorite quote?
Cassidy: “Have fun, be safe, drink water!” (simple words to live by)
What’s the #1 piece of gear or equipment you can’t be without?
Matt: My Crazy Creek chair! I use it everywhere.
Cassidy: My GSI camping cup! I won’t go anywhere without it, super practical.
Recommend our readers one podcast or book that you love.
Matt: Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
Cassidy: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Lastly, where can people find you online?
Website:
Instagram:
Cassidy – https://www.instagram.com/cattcityy/
Matt – https://www.instagram.com/mprofthenorth/
Voyageur Canoe Outfitters – https://www.instagram.com/voyageurcanoeoutfitters/
Facebook:
Voyageur Canoe Outfitters – https://www.facebook.com/BoundaryWatersBlogLady/
I hope you enjoyed Matt and Cassidy’s story! Tell us, in the comments below, if you’ve ever thought about living a lifestyle like theirs!?
All the best,
Happy Valentine’s Day, you outdoorsy love birds! Whether you subscribe to the holiday or not, I think we can all appreciate a good love story, which is exactly what I’ve got for you today – a love story filled with adventure and wilderness.
I’d like you to meet the wilderness power couple, Matt and Cassidy of Voyageur Canoe Outfitters.
Matt and Cassidy have been my neighbors across the Seagull River since they started working together at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters in 2016. Now, the newly engaged couple manage the daily operation of the outfitter business, year round.
Compared to most millennials, these two lead a unique lifestyle in the wilderness of Northern Minnesota. As you can imagine, I was tickled when they agreed to share some of their stories with me for this blog.
Enjoy!
Alright, it’s Valentine’s Day, your first as an engaged couple! You’ve got to tell us your love story! How’d you two meet?
Matt: Well it depends on who you ask. We met in Duluth, Minnesota, where we both went to college. We met through a mutual friend.
Cassidy: It was the usual “how you meet people in college” situation. So that’s how we met as friends. Matt was 19 and I was 20, but he looked so much older with the beard and the hair. When I met him, he’d always wear this tie-dye bandana…he was so cute.
Matt: Then we kinda chased each other back and forth for four years.
Cassidy: We were best friends. He was the person I went to for everything, even guy problems. Becoming friends first definitely shaped our relationship a ton.
And then I moved! I moved to Europe for 9 months so I said to Matt, “you’re my best friend but I’ve got to go live my life.” He’ll always say he chased me during those times but we didn’t ever actually talk about it. I knew he was in love with me but couldn’t admit it.
Matt: It was that unspoken thing…everybody knew but we didn’t talk about it. She had a boyfriend for the first two years of our friendship and then she moved to Europe.
Cassidy: But we wrote letters back and forth forever. I remember getting so excited every time a letter would come! He’d send me fun things like an agate or a feather from a dreamcatcher he made, which I taped in my journal.
And then half way through my study abroad program, he met someone.
Matt: But this was after I had written her and finally told her, “I like you a lot…this is how I feel,” basically spilling my heart out for three pages and then she didn’t really say anything back. She wouldn’t address it.
Cassidy: He put himself out there but timing is everything, always, and it wasn’t right. We remained friends though, no matter what. That was always the bottom line, “Our friendship will stand, no matter what!”
Matt: Talk about bad timing, right before she moved back from Europe I met a girl. So it was a little awkward for a while because my feelings towards her had all been put on the table but we never talked about it in person and then I was dating someone else. Hanging out was tough.
Cassidy: My heart would beat so fast at get togethers with friends thinking, “Is he going to be there!?” Because at this point, I knew I was in love with him and I wanted to be with him if he decided he didn’t want to be with this other girl. So I gave him time.
Matt: Maybe six months later, I was single again, living with a bunch of friends.
Cassidy: It was the best summer of my life. Matt was single and we had all our friends in one place.
Matt: All the guys had just bought Harley’s so it was the summer of legal drinking and motorcycle riding and mischief.
Cassidy: It was the best time ever! We started dating on the 4th of July of that summer (2015).
We had a pact to go rock skipping, some random pact we had made while I was in Europe. So on the 4th of July we were at the beach on Lake Superior, rock skipping.That’s when he asked me to be his girlfriend! Three years later, we’re now engaged!
So when did you two leave the city and make the leap to working for Voyageur Canoe Outfitters, together?
Matt: That fall I made the big change. I was working full time as a mechanic in Duluth, living paycheck to paycheck. I had a 401K and health benefits but I was sick of it. I was walking around the office looking at all these guys who had worked there for over ten years and they’re all 40-year-olds who look like their 65 and angry.
Meanwhile, my boss from previous summers working at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters was teasing me a lot, saying, “when are you going to quit your job and come back?”
So, one day, I said, “Do you actually want me to quit my job?” His answer was “yes”. He was looking for new managers and wanted me to do the job.
One day I was on lunch break and decided to call him and take the job. Three days later, I put in my two weeks notice!
Cassidy: So he came home and basically said, “I love ya babe but I’m moving!” At this point
Voyageur Canoe Outfitters ended up hiring us as a pair for the manager position. So I thought, “Ok I guess I’m managing a canoe outfitter.” It was a huge leap of faith. I never thought that would be something I would end up doing but I’ve learned SO much!
Tell us about your roles. What is a normal day like for you both, working at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters?
Cassidy: I’m the front face, I greet guests, I talk to them on the phone, I get them
We’re in charge of 8-10 staff.
Matt: As far as day to day operations go, literally everything you see from a-z – ordering food, ordering gear, packing out trips, operating the entire resort.
Cassidy: We work 7am to 7pm every single day all summer. We don’t take days off. But it all equals out in the winter when we can take two weeks off to go to Iceland, like we did this year.
Matt: Cass keeps me in check. If she didn’t keep an eye on me I’d probably work from 6 am until midnight every day.
Cassidy: But we get to meet so many cool people too. Our favorite guests come through and it’s instant smiles all around. We look forward to those guests coming every year so we can catch up.
Matt: I think the biggest thing is (and it’s what I tell all of our staff), whatever day it is for us it’s the first day of vacation for our guests. It’s such a unique line of work!
However, we disagree with the line, “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” If you put in 80 or 90 hours a week you realize it’s work. But this is a huge passion for us and we wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. We love what we do.
Have you always been such an outdoorsy power couple?
Matt: No! I didn’t start doing Boundary Waters trip until I started working at Voyageur Canoe Outfitters in 2013, so I was 19. I’ve always been a camper though. And Cass was always the “travel bug” girl.
Cassidy: I just loved to go, see everything I can! When I was little, I used to go canoe with my mom on our river but that’s the extent of it. I had never really camped that much. Matt and I have learned so much together and we’re still learning.
What would your advice be to couples who want to incorporate more of the outdoors into their relationship or maybe break into the outdoor industry?
Cassidy: Take the leap!
Matt: I think that’s the biggest thing. So many people say things like, “oh next year” and “it’s a bucket list item”
Cassidy: It doesn’t have to be on a bucket list. It’s not something you do once and cross it off. This is a lifestyle. You can go camping every year.
And it’s so much bigger than that. Being outdoors is for your soul.
Matt: Also, know that you can’t go from not doing it to this Patagonia wearing professional. You’re going to have to suffer a little. We all do. You’re going to have to take the 80-pound pack and be like, “Wow, that was really stupid. I’m gonna do it differently next time.”
While so many millennials are choosing corporate jobs in big cities, why have you chosen this unconventional way of life in the remote wilderness?
Matt: We’ve been doing it for several years now so it doesn’t seem like our lifestyle is unique but when you say it out loud I realize it is.
But with the whole big corporate thing, we have employees that we really want to come back but they get into their 20’s and feel they need to get the corporate job with the steady income.
I think following your dreams is huge and if that’s it then that’s great but if you’re stuck in a desk job and miserable….
Cassidy: Don’t get the job for the money! It’s never about the money and it just shouldn’t be. We wouldn’t be here if we were looking to be millionaires.
Matt: Definitely do not get into the outdoor industry to be rich. Definitely do it to be rich in perks and life experience, which I value so much more than money. But I think people are afraid to take that leap.
Have you had any “close calls” in the winter?
Cassidy: Yes! It’s kind of an embarrassing story because we were out on the ice for fun. We just wanted to be in a canoe, you know? We had spent all winter cooped up.
There was this tiny little patch of open water on the river so we thought, “let’s put a canoe in it!”
Matt: It was 65 degrees that day in April. We were outside in sweatshirts and rain boots wanting to get on the water.
Cassidy: We totally had cabin fever!
Matt: We put two Royalex canoes in the water and were using our paddles to break ice. Then we would get the front of the canoe up on a weak part of the ice and Cass would jump up and down to break it.
My brother convinced us to get out of the canoe and put one foot on the ice and one in the canoe to break the ice with our foot then jump back in the canoe. It worked for quite a while.
Cassidy: We had a pretty good section of ice broken so we were ripping back-and-forth in the canoe, having a blast.
Matt: We were wearing lifejackets, of course, but all it took was one simple mistake. I was going to break a piece of ice with my foot but my leg went too far down. I went to get back in the boat but ended up grabbing both gunnels of the canoe. That’s where it went bad and both of us went
Cassidy: It was an instant shock! I couldn’t breathe or figure out what was going on. Then I saw Matt trying to get out and I realized, “That’s what I’m supposed to do.”
So I started crawling on the ice and it broke and broke again. It was so discouraging. He got out before I did, which made it way harder for me. I kept thinking, “Oh my god, please help me. Come pull me out.” But he couldn’t.
Matt: The ice was so sharp our forearms were bleeding from grabbing at the ice with all your might.
Cassidy: I thought I was going to die!
Matt: Once I got up, I belly crawled quite a ways and then I had to stand there watching Cass trying to make it.
Cassidy: We made eye contact and I was thought, “Oh my god, he’s out…he can get me out.” I wasn’t thinking clearly. All he could do is say, “Cass, I can’t. You have to do this on your own. There’s nothing any of us can do for you.” So I had to get to a point where I said, “Ok I’m gonna get out on my own. I’m gonna figure it out”
Matt: I’m thankful that it happened though because we got to experience the shock of it in a somewhat controlled setting being so close to home with friends there.
Cassidy, in the male dominated outdoor industry, what would your advice be to women who want more wilderness experiences in their lives?
Cassidy: The main thing is confidence! Having confidence in yourself because if you have confidence in yourself to go camping, you’ll go camping. Having confidence that you can learn what you need to.
We often get challenged more than men and sometimes it makes me mad. People walk in and trust Matt right away. But on the flipside, I’m happy because I have to try harder so ultimatley I’m bettering myself.
For example, if you don’t trust me to to tell you which cove is the best to go fishing in, that’s fine but I am going to learn that and I’m going to be right and I’m going to give you the information. You may go ask Matt but he’s going to tell you the same thing.
Matt: We’ve totally teamed up on that too. A lot of times I can hear people ask her those questions, and she tells them exactly the same thing I would’ve. So when they come ask me I can tell them what Cass just said.
Cassidy: You have to believe in yourself then go pick up the canoe or the pack or the fishing pole and keep doing it until it gets easier.
What’s the number one lesson this wilderness way of life has taught you both?
Matt: Anything in this world is possible if you put your mind to it! I think anyone could do just about anything but so many people underestimate themselves. Living in the wilderness has taught me that I can do just about anything if I put in the time and dedication.
Cassidy: I’ve learned that you don’t need a lot of “things”. That was a huge change for me. We’ve become minimalists without realizing it because you just don’t need as much stuff here and we also don’t have the space for it. Instead we’re big believers in fewer but better quality gear.
Let’s end with a few rapid-fire questions!
What’s the biggest fish you’ve each caught?
Cassidy: Matt’s the biggest fish I’ve caught. (Awwwwwww)
Matt: A 36.5 inch Lake Trout. It was close to 25 years old!
What’s your favorite quote?
Cassidy: “Have fun, be safe, drink water!” (simple words to live by)
What’s the #1 piece of gear or equipment you can’t be without?
Matt: My Crazy Creek chair! I use it everywhere.
Cassidy: My GSI camping cup! I won’t go anywhere without it, super practical.
Recommend our readers one podcast or book that you love.
Matt: Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
Cassidy: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Lastly, where can people find you online?
Website:
Instagram:
Cassidy – https://www.instagram.com/cattcityy/
Matt – https://www.instagram.com/mprofthenorth/
Voyageur Canoe Outfitters – https://www.instagram.com/voyageurcanoeoutfitters/
Facebook:
Voyageur Canoe Outfitters – https://www.facebook.com/BoundaryWatersBlogLady/
I hope you enjoyed Matt and Cassidy’s story! Tell us, in the comments below, if you’ve ever thought about living a lifestyle like theirs!?
All the best,
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Truly yes, I’m a very outdoorsy person and family, I and my family love everything about the outdoors, but unfortunately I need to stay where I’m at for medical reasons for my son,
I really enjoy reading this story about Matt and Cassidy,
Hi Paul! Family is #1. The outdoors will always be there waiting for you and your family. Thank you so much for reading! It brings a smile to my face to hear you enjoyed Matt and Cassidy’s story.
Love!!❤️ But full disclosure that is my baby girl and her man. Two beautiful souls that were totally meant to be together!! So proud and happy for them!’
Awwww Kaye! Your comment makes me teary eyed! What a sweet and confident baby girl you’ve raised! And what a perfect soul mate she has found! <3
Ashley! This is the best. Thank you for sharing it. You really do an amazing job getting words out there, I’m excited to continue to read your work ♥️
Thank YOU! I so so so appreciate your willingness to be open and vulnerable. I was so lucky to be able to write your story. 🙂
Thank you for the wonderful article about Matt and Cassidy! We have been guests at VCO since 2011 and we just love these two! They make our annual canoe trip a really pleasure. We came up in Feb 2018 and we’ll be up next week. Can’t wait to congratulate them!
I hope you two had a nice stay at VCO! You had some gorgeous weather! Matt and Cassidy are some of my favorite folks up here and I’m so grateful to be able to write about their accomplishments. I’m glad you enjoyed reading the article!
Me and dad are so proud of you two! Love you so much❤️❤️
Great article–great job Matt and Cassie
Love it– live it!
Beautiful story! Loved reading about their sweet romance. Sure do sound like soulmates. So happy you found each other.
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