Alex · Denise · Henry

Three Drosts.
Plenty of adventures.

A Detroit-area family with deep roots in the middle-market professional world, a shared appreciation for a good road trip, and a goldendoodle who has developed strong opinions about which rest stops are worth stopping at.

Meet the family
Alex and Denise Drost — Detroit-area family
Alex Drost — Detroit-area professional

Alex Drost

The one with the audiobooks.

Alex works in the middle-market professional world and has spent the better part of two decades thinking about companies, the people who run them, and what it takes to build something that lasts. He does not talk about work at parties.

Outside the office, he is most likely somewhere on I-75 with Henry in the passenger seat and an audiobook queued up. He has developed strong opinions about rest stops, the precise right moment to stop for gas, and whether a given road trip qualifies as a “real” road trip — criteria he has not yet fully published.

Denise Drost

The one who actually plans things.

Denise is a Detroit-area professional with a background that she will describe far better than a placeholder can. What is not in question is that she is the reason the family’s road trips have an itinerary, the right snacks, and a contingency plan for when the original plan encounters Henry’s opinions about rest stops.

She keeps things running with a level of organizational clarity that Alex finds both impressive and slightly humbling. Henry regards her primarily as the person most likely to share a snack without being formally asked.

Denise Drost — Detroit-area professional
The co-pilot

Goldendoodle. Co-pilot.
Professional greeter.

A full section, because he has earned it.

Henry — the Drost family goldendoodle

Henry is a goldendoodle with an extraordinary personality and a geographic footprint that most people would envy. He has logged more highway miles than most adults and has strong, non-negotiable opinions about the optimal rest stop experience. His interests include car rides (any duration, any destination), meeting new people (always), hiking (enthusiastically), and monitoring the kitchen for opportunities (constantly).

Breed Goldendoodle (mostly poodle)
Occupation Co-pilot, morale officer, professional greeter
Known for Road trips, meeting strangers, extraordinary enthusiasm
Territory The Midwest, broadly. Detroit area, specifically.
On the road

Adventures

Henry has a standing policy: if the car is moving, he is in it.

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