Category: Leaving a trail for our Son

All Mid Life Celebration posts from 2008 – 2014.

Wealthy, mind

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park’s Dragons Tail saddle with Reynolds Mountain standing tall (9,200′) behind us. Photo from 2023.

Wealth is when you have something money can’t buy.

A growth-mindset, for example.

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Second day home in a month, mind

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park’s Logan Pass in 2023.
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park’s Logan Pass in 2023.
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park’s Logan Pass in 2023.

It’s fun to reminisce.

Especially about Glacier trips.

For seven consecutive Summers we went as a united group.

Everyone but me missed 2020’s Covid-19 GNP nuttiness.

Brett joined us in 2022 and 2023.

The group trips concluded two years ago in 2024.

Why?

Everyone is into their post-college lives and scheduling is challenging.

Not to mention this year as fixed-income retirees, 2026 limits our ability to finance a party of five or six.

Also in 2024, Chapin got to visit with us at Sperry Chalet.

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First day home in a month, mind

Glacier National Park
Reunited at home in Walt Disney World after one month apart. Photo: Swiftcurrent Pass Trail, 2023.

No place like home.

Home is mental vibrancy, led by a growth-mindset.

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Fly home from Glacier, mind

Glacier National Park
Glacier Park Lodge (above) has the best Shasta Daisy garden. Daisy Parkway, as we call it, has the best roadside expanse of native mountain daises. Daisy Parkway is on Going-to-the-Sun Road Between the East Tunnel and Siyeh Bend.

Happy present moment.

Ps.. There is nothing more in life than this.

Pss. The beauty of the present moment is your gratitude for what you wished happened yesterday, what you hoped would happen today or the gift of the wonderful, unexpected lessons that happen tomorrow.

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Glacier Airport Hotel, mind

Glacier National Park
We visit Glacier National Park to hike. Photo from the Reynolds Mountain – Dragons Tail saddle, 2023.

Sitting in every Glacier National Park Lodge lobby, every Glacier National Park Motor Inn lobby, and all three Glacier National Park Chalet lobbies, one thing becomes remarkably clear.

(and it’s a blinding flash of the obvious)

Humans love having their (mental) breath taken away.

Glacier National Park Lodges (4):

  1. Lake McDonald Lodge
  2. Glacier Park Lodge
  3. St. Mary Lodge
  4. Many Glacier Hotel (Lodge)

Glacier National Park Motor Inns (6):

  1. West Glacier Motel and RV Park & Cabins
  2. Village Inn at Apgar
  3. Apgar Village Lodge (not a lodge, but cabins and motel)
  4. Motel Lake McDonald
  5. Rising Sun Motor Inn & Cabins
  6. Swiftcurrent Motor Inn & Cabins

Glacier National Park Chalets (3):

  1. Belton Chalet
  2. Sperry Chalet
  3. Granite Park Chalet

Note: Intentionally excluding:

  1. Cedar Creek Lodge (Columbia Falls)
  2. Grouse Mountain Lodge (Whitefish)
  3. Glacier International Lodge (Kalispell Airport)
  4. The Cottages at Glacier (St Mary)

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