Alaska was a wonderful trip. Getting to hang out with my two best friends, create solid memories, take a lot of pictures, laugh, drink good beer and eat solid food, and hike a lot. I got to hang out with one of the most fun, rad parents and grandparents ever and genuinely enjoyed being anonymous and blending in whereas in Boise I see someone I know and someone else within inches of each other. Yeah the biggest extrovert in town. I also went on hikes and saw great water. I had a great trip one of the best ever. So without further adieu three things I learned:
1) Unexpected things happen and you can continue to work through them: there were several unexpected things that happened on the trip: the cost was pretty high and I thought I would be compensated more, there were long stretches without food and long waits and there were so much more traffic than expected with fast drivers and of course the airport drama. Surprisingly I worked on using my words and working through the conflict resolution and made it to Boise on Thursday (almost Friday) as expected. I wasn't expecting sleeping well but I slept like a rock without all of the horses going into the night. I am genuinely grateful for how it worked out everything worked out well and the trip was better because of it.
2) Alexis's family loves me almost as much as she does: Or not. No one loves me as much as Alexis outside of my family. But they sure did love me and we had great long conversations, Alexis and Alex told stories, they were genuinely interested in hearing about my jobs and wish I could stay longer and they were way better hosts than I could ever imagine. I am lucky to have a family that loves me almost as much as their daughter and her Mom got to see almost drunk version of Ian and still accepted me well. Also the whole time I tried convincing them that I am an angel and they didn't buy it so basically they are truth-tellers and don't believe everything I tell them which is appreciated because honesty is refreshing.
3) A great place to go Iancognito for a while for me: I met a few of Alexis's friends who I had conversations with but other than the few people I met besides that, Alexis's family (and Alexis and Alex), and a staff from an organization that was doing work up there I didn't have much of a conversation outside of compliments and service from anyone. Not one person and it was kind of refreshing even though I love being the center of attention (for a while when I was playing basketball literally) it was nice to hide and not know many souls and soak in the beauty while only really being on for phone for short spurts of social media. I was able to be physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually at peace without rushing to see the next person. It was a genuine thing to really show I care and compliment others without knowing them though except for the hugs from Alexis's family I only got a few hugs and that was way weird because I am a lovable human. And due to my at the time mountain man beard and my jacket and sassy attitude and kindness I blended in well.
So that's a short recap from Alaska. Another blog in a couple of weeks talking about a wonderful hero to me as the first session of the series of the hero chronicles where I talk about 6 wonderful heroes who have shaped my adult life begins.
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