Two people. A lot of years. And a road that kept leading back to the mountains.
We’re Ed and Crystal Wagner, both from Logan County, West Virginia. We first met in 1985 on the Logan High School baseball field, Ed as a player and Crystal as a manager. Life eventually took us in different directions before bringing us back together in 2019. We got engaged on Leap Day 2020 and married that October in Canaan Valley, West Virginia.
We’re not retired yet. But we can see the next chapter from here.
After decades spent building careers and working for others, we’re approaching the end of that part of our lives and looking forward to what comes next.
Crystal earned her master’s degree from Marshall University and spent nearly 22 years with the UMWA Health & Retirement Funds. Ed brings more than 37 years with Ford Motor Company, with a career spanning manufacturing, prototype development, distribution and warehouse operations.
We’ve spent most of our adult lives working, building careers and meeting the responsibilities that came with them. Now we’re ready to build something of our own.
Ridge & Sky is part of that next chapter. We want to see more of the United States, travel roads we’ve never traveled, photograph places we’ve never seen, meet people along the way and share those experiences through photography, stories, music and Crystal’s voice.
We’re not starting Ridge & Sky because we have everything figured out. Quite the opposite. We’re starting it because after all these years, we’re finally reaching a point where we’ll have the freedom to find out what’s beyond the next ridge.
Ridge is where we come from. Sky is where we’re headed.
And we can’t forget our daughter, Luna.
Luna, our Husky/German Shepherd mix, is always ready for the next road trip, campground and adventure. Wherever this next chapter takes us, there’s a pretty good chance she’ll be along for the ride.
