Born and raised. Most of my family is in the car business, and my father was as well. He left that to pursue his dream of being a pilot. I went to St. Clements Senior High School, raced dirt bikes, missed a lot of school. In public school, you could only miss 19 days. Most of my friends were from Coronado and Morehead, where I went to Middle School. We got a core group of friends that all stay together still to this day. Through them, and just growing up and doing our thing in El Paso I got exposed to the bar business. Also being right across from the border haha!