Glacier – Page 4 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Brand new day, home

hotel room view in winter next to interstate — A room with a view.

15-second video: Family video message.

A new day also offers another day’s commitment in a long streak of committed days, months, years, and/or decades.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

High country snow, home

snow covered mountain cliffs — Continental Divide.

19-second video: Neighbor video message. This day, Halloween 2024, is my 10th Disney-retirement anniversary.

The echo…

The similarities are everywhere. All the time. Endlessly.

Once i saw the endless similarities, the “inspiring honeymoon differences” aren’t worth chasing.

Relocating from where we call home is a nonsensical daydream.

Home is the life-long honeymoon.

Palm trees and sunshine.

Walt Disney World less than one mile away.

Lifetime Disney annual passes.

Nightly Magic Kingdom fireworks from every back window.

Each month 29 out of 30 days is sunny.

Tropical, colorful landscape. Year-round.

Pool water temperature bearable 10 months per year.

Everything i need, except my Allergist, is within walking distance, including Walt Disney World.

Note: It’s easier to bicycle to Disney’s Animal Kingdom than walk.

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New, then spooky

mountain lake — Looking back at Avalanche Lake’s far shoreline. That distant shore is where the trail ends for nearly everyone.

two mountain goats on a mountain side — Top, left-center: Two Mountain Goats. No idea how i spotted them. i never look for them on this trail.

15-second video: Cannot explain how i spotted these two mountain goats. Definitely wasn’t looking for them.

Apple Watch at trailhead sign — The 5-mile roundtrip hike morphed into this. Love it!

mountain road — Hello! Driving from Avalanche back to hotel. Stopped at a few overlooks because the Park is literally deserted. This overlook is near Scared Dancing Cascade.

Hiking to the far end was invigorating.

Why?

Because it’s a brand new experience.

Then it got spooky.

No one but me in this isolated location.

Started talking to myself to project my voice to help avoid surprises. Surprising a big animal is a potentially dangerous situation.

It was a cool vibe to turn a ‘forecasted’ sedentary day into a seven-mile trek.

Note: There was a potential Grizzly encounter that is worth sharing. But not today.

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Got Glacier history, home

giant silver ball and chain — A Hungry Horse (town) icon next to Highway 2 (“Main Street’). Everyone going to Glacier passes this.

hungry horse plaque — This mostly unreadable plaque can be explained here.

My first Glacier visit was in 1973.

Cheryl’s first visit was with me in 1982.

Chapin’s first visit was in 2013.

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Be good to yourself, home

small town bar sign — Finally went inside, after 51 years.

stonefly google search results — Never made the connection to Glacier’s waterways until i went inside.

stonefly bar sign above the bar — Coram, Montana. If you know, you know. Hint (if you don’t know): Don’t blink.

mountain town bar sign — This bar and cafe is on Coram’s ‘outskirts’.

lumberjack saw blades — Paul Bunyan was a lumberjack. The bar is filled with history of Glacier and Hungry Horse Dam.

chain saws on display in a mountain bar — Got chainsaw?

fancy old fashioned mountain bar — Quite elaborate for a mountain town.

That is one giant saw blade. Note: Also the first time inside here in my 51 years of visits.

Be generous with your joy.

Ps. The joy you reap from knowing your priorities in priority order. It became a game changer when i finally committed to making it a daily habit.

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