I am going to do a post about the coolest parts of my Glacier National Park trip but first I wanted to post about something a noticed over and over while on out trip last week.
Everyone that I met was happy and helpful. I didn’t meet a single grumpy rude person the entire trip. A maintenance man helped us put air in a low tire. We talked to some very friendly retirees on the shuttle, who found me to return my hiking pole after I left it in the shuttle. A hiker that we passed several times on our long highline trail hike gave us a ride back to our camp so we didn’t have to wait forever for a shuttle. There was the friendly biker gang that Darcy got a picture with. And met a very friendly hippie who showed me how I could use my hiking pole as a didgeridoo and made sure I knew the dangers of pvc (apparently it can give you cancer and give men a more feminine voice.)
All of the park rangers campers and hikers we met were fun to talk to and happy to be where they were. I have wondered about the reason for this. Does being in such a beautiful setting make people happier? Are happy people more likely to go on a vacation to a national park? Or do grumpy people not like to go to beautiful places? Whatever the reason is I thoroughly in enjoyed spending a week around happy people.
