Thanksgiving Day, 2013

19-second video: For about 10 seconds in the very center, you can see the Grizzly moving slowly. Highline Trail and Going-to-the-Sun Road also clearly visible.

In 1979 i made a promise to write a book to my kids.

In 2009, 30 years later, a career wakeup call was a painful reminder the first sentence had yet to be written.

Additionally, there was only one child to write to, not several.

Only my Son and i knew the status:

  • Thirty years to write the first sentence
  • Two more years to write the book
  • Two more years to get the courage to publish

Had it published on Amazon in October 2013, knowing the official reveal to Cheryl with a physical copy would purposefully happen on Thanksgiving (2013) morning.

She had heard me talk so much about it, but never saw any tangible result. She thought i silently abandoned it.

Cheryl was shocked to hold a copy in her hands.

Was filled with gratitude – thanksgiving – that i finally did what i said i was gonna do.

Thanksgiving, on multiple levels, was the perfect day to tell Cheryl, and the world.

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Been cancelling like crazy

Pixar UP toys on a rock trail
A dime would easily cover the heart. Tiny. Surrounded by billions of stones. Nearly seven miles of trail from Chalet to car. The odds of seeing this upside down in a fleeting moment is zero. And yet it happened. Photo: Aiming up where we are hiking away from.

Been cancelling like crazy.

What?

Cancelling all June’s reservations: lodge, car, bike. Multiple iterations and combos – and redundancies – in case an unpredictable event closes portions of Glacier.

Why?

Because air fare is off the charts. For Cheryl and i to go bike Going-to-the-Sun Road is too much to justify.

The June trip dates to Glacier is driven by Sun Road opening. Sun Road opening is driven by snow plowing progress.

June airfare traditionally gets books a week in advance. That’s it. In a typical year, airfare never skyrockets. Right now, the July and August first-class airfare is less than an economy seat. And first-class is triple the norm.

The other two trips to Glacier are locked in months in advance and tickets purchased. If snow plowing had a guaranteed completion date, we’d have been able to lock and load our June arrival months ago.

Grateful for this first-world challenge. #PrayForUkraine

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Thankful to dwell

Disney character toys at mountain lake
Whistle while you think, move, feel, work, and dwell.
Disney Keynote Speaker Jeff Noel name tags
I spy wifi me whittle eye. Photo: Avalanche Lake.

Thankful to dwell.

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Logan Pass biking

biking a snowy mountain rode
Early June, 6,000′
biking a snowy mountain rode
Early June…6,643′ at Logan Pass Visitor’s Center parking lot. Iconic Mt Clements.

We come to know the true meaning of Thanksgiving when we learn to celebrate it everyday.

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High five if you please

4-second Disney World video…when the shop is slow, send a Cast Member outside to interact.
7-second GNP video…this is snow-melt and ice-melt from Sperry Glacier. Seen here in Avalance Creek which drains out of Avalanche Lake, which fills from Sperry Glacier.

Today’s posts brought to you by a random high-five moment to take a break from severe writer’s flood.

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