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Glacier checklists day 2, home

Glacier Park Lodge lobby
Glacier Park Lodge lobby.
Glacier Park Lodge
Glacier Park Lodge, Great Northern building. Our favorite room is here. We request it every year. Ps. That’s Cheryl on the top floor balcony. Our room has a private door to it.
Glacier Park Lodge
Glacier Park Lodge’s pool. Handful of years ago, this iconic water feature made way for a horseshoe ‘court’.

Glacier checklists, day two.

  1. Plan on two rest days for our week together. Weather often drives when to not hike (rest).
  2. Rest days are open, and can include a scenic drive or chill at Lodge, or both.
  3. East Glacier, and Glacier Park Lodge, is more remote from the signature 50-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road. And even further from Logan Pass and Many Glacier/Swiftcurrent Valley (like easily a 90-minute one-way drive without stops.
  4. There is a small lobby cafe-coffee-ice cream-sundries shop.
  5. The tiny (for real tiny) town of East Glacier has a small country store.
  6. The nearby town of Browning (the epicenter for the Blackfeet Nation) has two grocery stores and a small hospital, is a 30-minute drive one way.

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Glacier checklists, home

St Mary entrance to Glacier
St Mary entrance to Glacier National Park – the eastern start of Going-To-The-Sun Road.
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park westside entrance sign.
Glacier National Park
GNP. Glacier Park Lodge lobby. We’re staying here. We will have an insanely epic experience.

We’re staying at Glacier Park Lodge. We will have an insanely epic experience.

i simply have to mesh two entirely different things:

  1. Deconstruct what we would normally do on our third consecutive week of high-mountain hiking (above 6,000′), on our final extended Glacier visit.
  2. Reconstruct what Glacier acclimated hikers (us) need to modify to enable what first-time, sea-level, Glacier visitors need so they do not overdo it. While simultaneously not leaving me feeling held back from what i would normally do if it was just Cheryl and me – on our farewell experience.

We could drive around, like a tour guide, and see all the sights.

A BFO, i do not want to end our deeply personal Glacier relationship like we started with Chapin in 2013 – driving around and stopping at the assorted scenic pullover lookouts.

Bottomline, i want to move (hike) like i (we) mean it. We are still physically capable.

If this is our last chance, i want to suck the marrow out of it.

So you can see the challenge, the opportunity.

Looking forward to being enlightened to a wonderful win-win solution.

Ps. i am open to, and hopeful for stumbling on a remarkable idea that takes this current situation to a glorious experience for all of us.

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It takes a village

Serendipitous that Deb would cross our path as we departed.
Candid.
Officially graduated.

It takes a village.

Perhaps the most impressive feature of WPS is how focused the school’s leadership team is in pursuing excellence.

They were a perfect catch for Nord Anglia Education – the Ivy League of International High Schools.

Son, you got to experience something rare.

What a privilege for us to have it at our doorstep for the past four years.

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Got flow down, next is timing

TEDx Talk outline
Just 24 hours ago, i wrote down the TEDx Talk AUK outline on a post-it note.
Orlando furniture store
This furniture store is huge. We looked at every piece but only focused on bedroom stuff. This photo captures only the “lobby” area.

Got the TEDx AUK Talk flow down, next is timing.

Each speaker gets 18 minutes.

Just learned i am the third of three session-one speakers. There are three sessions with a break between each one and a dinner at 8pm following the third session.

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Why be constantly focused on personal organization?

Middle school pep rally
Middle schoolers are easily impressed with celebrities.

 

Middle school cafeteria pep rally
Last night at the middle school pep rally.

 

Why be constantly focused on personal organization?

One benefit to being decently organized is that it helps facilitate being able to do more good, to more people, more often.

As a side note, it’s also insidiously helpful to be actively visible in your children’s day-to-day life. Common sense, not common practice.

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