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Aren’t you glad to be alive?, home

Disney customer service keynote speaker Jeff Noel
As a speaker, you must get used to seeing your photo plastered all over the place. It’s called marketing. People want to see, and know, a familiar and trusted face. Used to think like that. Now? Nope.

Continuing my robust reflection on Glacier and on my gratitude for still being alive to reThink, rePrioritize, and reCommit to stay personally vibrant.

i intimately know massively more about Disney’s Organizational Vibrancy cultural architecture than i know about Glacier National Park’s geological architectural history.

And yet with 518 lifetime nights in Glacier, there’s an intimacy that is good and decent. An insider’s knowledge from extra-ordinary feet-on-the-ground experience.

Funny how Glacier’s wilderness offers a higher education specializing in life-altering learning opportunities.

The learning is calling, and i must go.

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What’s next?, home

What’s next after ‘retiring’ Glacier from your annual, extensive (14) Summer trips?

Rethinking how we invest our time, talent, and treasure.

This should be priority-led. Period.

  1. Time waits for no one.
  2. No regrets.
  3. Live like you mean it!
  4. While you have the chance.

If the time and money we spent in Glacier were reallocated, when and where do we want to go?

Worth a second reprise: As long as we are alive and get to love each other, we will entertain any option to live like we mean it.

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Glacier 2026 regrets (if any), home

brown single-story motor inn
During our month in Glacier, we made all four Motor Inn and Park Lodge rooms feel like home. Pictured here is our corner room at Rising Sun Motor Inn’s upper Motel. Singleshot Mountain on horizon.

Glacier 2026 regrets (if any), home-wise:

None.

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Glacier 2026 highlights, home

mountain trail and purple flowers
Mt Oberlin. We hiked the trail towards it a handful of times because no one’s on it. And the water features and 360-panorama are stunning. Note: This trail is next to arguably Glacier’s most heavily-trafficked trail, Hidden Lake Trail.

Glacier 2026 highlights:

  1. Not climbing Oberlin.
  2. Wildfire tolerance.
  3. Coming home.

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What’s next for Glacier?, home

SUV packed with boxes of stuff
July 25, arrival day. Everything loaded up. U-Haul closet emptied. Yee-haa!
SUV packed with boxes of stuff
August 24, final two boxes to UPS home. August 25, 6:00AM flight home. Two light suitcases. Two small daypacks as personal items. Yee-haa!

What’s next for Glacier?

For 2027: Traveling, walking, and having fun are top priorities.

Doing this in Glacier for the 15th consecutive Summer is not a priority next year (2027).

Glacier was a perfect setting for traveling, walking, and having fun.

There are a million other places waiting to be explored.

No intention of trying to replace Glacier.

However, we may find a travel process (not a place) that yields the astonishing return on investment that Glacier provided.

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