The Ram's younger days were of motion driven by wanderlust, from rural Pennsylvania, through New York, up into the Vermont border. In 1999, he drove to California with nothing but a beat-up F150. His traveling jones was traded in for the chance to settle down with his lady and build a family by the ocean in North County San Diego.

In 2020, he released his album To Love a Wild Fire, a curated collection of love songs, prayers, and laments drawn from the Ram's unreleased home recordings.