Early Summer Trip day 2, body

Glacier National Park wildflowers
In Allentown, yet finding a Glacier National Park photo with roadside daisies.

Will today be remarkable and fun?

After a good night’s sleep, a long walk, the no-gym gym workout, and a nutritious breakfast, let the fun begin.

The ‘remarkable’ in “remarkable and fun” is a personal metric.

It’s remarkable how i feel after accomplishing early morning victories: rest, movement, fuel.

Not everyday is a joyful workout. Various things can make it feel more like work. This is where finding a million ways to stay motivated pays off remarkably well.

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Early Summer Trip day 1, body

Funny saying about healthy people
From the halls of Cedar Crest College in Allentown Pennsylvania while visiting ‘potential’ colleges with Chapin in 2018.

What will it be like to attend Cheryl’s 50th High School reunion?

The first time i visited Allentown was 1979.

My College Dorm Resident Advisor (RA) partner recommended we visit.

We were fellow RA’s on the top (6th) floor of a co-ed dorm.

This was the first year West Chester State College ever had co-ed dorms.

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June 10, body

Snow and corner house in Allentown, PA
Snow and corner house in Allentown, PA. Cheryl’s mom was born in this house and lived in it her entire life. She was 92 when she sold it and then moved to Senior Housing. The front room in this photo – all i’ve ever known as the living room – was once a one-room corner grocery store for the local community.

Drove Cheryl to the airport a few days ago.

The airline we’re using only flies Orlando to Allentown twice a week.

i’ll be flying up the second day they fly this week.

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In Disney’s body

Disney leaders at a January 2025 reunion
L-R: me, Kevin, Tracy, Laura, Kathy. Kathy, Laura and i worked as mid-1980’s Disney’s Contemporary Resort Front Desk Leads.

Pictured above, coincidently, are four people i worked with before joining Disney Institute in 1999.

Kevin, with his back to us, was the Resort Operations Area Manager when i was on DLDP at Disney’s Village Resort (DVR) in 1987. Kevin rose to a Resort Vice President.

He ran leadership meetings more efficiently and effectively than anyone i ever encountered at Disney.

By the way, DVR later became Disney Institute, and then (and now) Disney’s Saratoga Springs Vacation Club.

Didn’t think of this until trying to theme this post to ‘body’…no one asked me (and i never expected anyone to) if i am still bicycling. Cheryl and i had one car, two jobs with different schedules, and we lived 30 miles from Disney’s Contemporary Resort. We also had two nice bicycles. i rode one of them to work for several years. We eventually bought a second car.

Final note: Mentioned in the second paragraph, DLDP stood for Disney’s Leadership Development Program. It later changed to DMDP, Disney’s Management Development Program.

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Nice surprises in the City of Brotherly Love

Welcome to Philadelphia sign
Welcome at airport.

 

Philly soft pretzel
As we were waiting at the Alamo exit gate, we were offered complimentary soft pretzels and bottled water.

 

Philly clothespin
This is famous but without Googling it, i don’t recall why.

 

Loews Philadelphia Hotel
Home for the next two nights.

 

Four Diamond Hotel Philly
A long run of four-diamond excellence.

 

Nice surprises in the City of Brotherly Love:

  • Free car upgrade to a V8 engine
  • Pretzels and water before leaving Alamo lot
  • A Hotel famous for excellence
  • A center city location
  • A nice walk to dinner at Ocean Prime and back
  • iPhone X on its way from China

None of this was anything we made a big deal over – but put it all together and it was very nice.

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