In my personal life, I am a whole and utter mess, and it is quite uncommon for me to have someone who has helped me feel a little bit more grounded. I am a full and entire ruin. We were merely enjoying a casual talk at the Arizona Ren Fair in the year 2018, when we occurred to run into each other by accident. We were having a conversation about something, Douglas Kondziolka and I. Amelia and I were still in the process of experiencing it for the first time, and we were still in the process of getting our feet wet on the road.
In the course of our conversation about the things that I like doing during the off season, I mentioned to Doug that I live in close proximity to Las Vegas. My hobbies were something that Doug was interested in hearing about. In the event that we were interested in reducing our expenses, he suggested that we could just travel to Arizona and stay on his property without incurring any further expenses. A smart choice would be to go with this.
I did not want to do that at the time because I believed that we would be intruding on his life and that having a couple with a dog, who at the time was not very friendly toward people, would simply be and it did not seem right.
This was the reason why I did not want to do it. Exactly for this reason, I did not want to go through with it. During the journey that Amelia and I took to the North Carolina fair in 2019, we were talking about the preparations that we were making for the off season.
During the course of our talk, we brought up the fact that we were having trouble meeting our obligations in terms of finances. As a result of this, on the day that we went to the fair, I simply asked him straight, and in the way that is typical of Doug, he cheerfully agreed. Because of this, we decided to stay in Chloride, Arizona, during the whole of the off season, and we spent our days there
Not only did we drink a significant amount of wine, but we also indulged in dairy goods and played board games during the course of the evening. During the course of one evening, I distinctly recall thinking to myself how thankful I was and how there was no way that I could ever repay them for the compassion they had shown me. During that particular time, I was at a loss for words. The only thing that he did was give us the impression that we were visiting our own home.
