Dawn Bailey
One of my favorite memories with Chad was in 2018. Our families met in Disney World for a Halloween event. I think Ethan and my children were 7-9 years old. We split up, and I took my two children in one racecar, and Chad and Ethan were in the racecar just behind us. There’s a metal track on this ride, and you have to be strong to keep your car in the middle of that track. My kids were little, and we just could not stay on the track, scraping the whole way. Besides the 10 minutes of that awful metal-on-metal screeching, what I remember was Chad laughing and laughing—not making fun of me but in solidarity. And when we got to the end, they offered to let me go again because I had two children, and I looked at Chad and asked him if he wanted to go again. I think he said let’s do it or let’s go. And we went back on the track, doing the best we could, metal scraping against metal, powering through, fighting to keep on track—and laughing—the whole way. He had such a great sense of humor.
