My name is Wendy, my husband goes by Smiles. One of the first entrepreneurs to start VRBO in the area, we have been doing it for 20 years. I started this adventure while teaching in Browning. During the summers I found myself sleeping in my garage (using the campground down the street for showers, etc.), while renting to travelers during the busy season and moving back into the house during the school year.
My story in Glacier National Park starts with my mother and her parents' love of the outdoors, trips to Glacier, the Cabinet mountains and family trips fly fishing on all rivers in northern Montana and Idaho. Then, in 1990 when I visited my brother working in Many Glacier I might have known I would do the same 6 years later, during the summer of my freshman year in college - 1996. In 2004, I applied for a teaching position in Browning, Mt., home of the Blackfeet Tribe, border of Glacier National Park.
I was a full time classroom teacher for nearly two decades teaching in such places as India and Mexico as well as spending 5 years of that experience teaching in the local town of Browning. Raised in northern Idaho, I love this area and the activities available here. More recently I have worked as a ski instructor for kids at the Whitefish Mountain Resort on the other side of Glacier Park in the town of Whitefish, Montana. I have spent enough time in the area to answer most of the questions you might have and am truly happy to do so. Sharing such a special place is my chance to change lives by helping people reconnect to the majesty of wild lands and refresh the spirit.