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Burning Days, Restless Nights by Felipe Morin

Discomfort is where all the growth hides. Awkward conversations, silent rooms, starting over, showing up when you’d rather disappear. It’s where the old version of you dies a little so the new one can breathe. Comfort keeps you where you are, discomfort dares you to become.

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The Grand View Ship Hotel on the Lincoln Highway in Juniata Township, Pennsylvania, pictured in 1953, 1963, 1977, 1982, 1999 and 2021.

Construction began in 1927. Building the hotel proved difficult as it required 63 tons of steel, 18 piers drilled down 32 feet to find rock, numerous carloads of lumber and 22 junked car frames, which were used to cover the hotel’s exterior.

The Grand View became known for having “one of the most significant scenic views on the North American continent,” and boasted that you could see Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland from the hotel’s ‘deck’. The hotel stayed busy until the 1970s when business declined and owner Herbet Paulson died. At that time, it was sold, rebranded into “Noah’s Ark” and eventually closed. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, but after burning down in 2001, it was delisted in 2002.