Tag: reflection

What the hail?, home

florida clouds
Home sweet home. Early morning. Walking. Per usual.
woman siting in the Glacier mountains
Cheryl. Stunning. In this Glacier 2026 photo. Stunning…In any photo. Stunning… 100% in real life. Photo: Logan Pass looking down into St Mary Lake.

What the hail?

What?

What the hail? You know, like what the heck just happened?

Did i really say Summer 2026 is our Glacier farewell tour?

Indeed.

Recap for Summer 2027:

  1. Lodging 14 nights done
  2. Rental car done
  3. Arrival flight booked

St Mary Lodge 8 nights, Many Glacier Hotel 5 nights, Apgar Village Inn 1 night before flight home.

Ready to put this itinerary behind me and move onto the next cool 2027 itinerary.

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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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