Hypermiling Beginnings (Story Time)

Would love to hear everyone's stories of how they first got into hypermiling and the Prius as well.

I'll go first:

I'm a technology guy and long before I've ever owned one I've always been impressed with the Prius. Every time we would pull up behind one or see one on the road I would always tell my wife how jealous I was of them. Of course this whole time I was pretty clueless to hypermiling and my driving of our other vehicles reflected this.
Early in 2012 I really started to up my game with reading and researching the Prius. I'm pretty sure I even might have ran across PC here before I was a member. Then the time came for us to take a long road trip from Nebraska to North Carolina. Somewhere I had ran across the fact that some dealers rent Toyota's and even Prii. With our aging road trip vehicle I was leaning toward renting anyway and learning I could rent a Prius just pushed me over the edge.
So off we went in our newly rented Prius. I still had no clue about P&G or really any other hypermiling techniques but through trial and error I was able to average upper 50's to low 60's for much of the trip. When we got home I honestly thought this might have been a fluke. So after much more research and really getting into PC a lot more I ran across things like Bob's video and other great threads on how to drive it.
Needless to say it didn't take me long to realize I had to have one and the rest is history.