Echo Lake, Montana: The Silence Wasn’t Peaceful

Echo Lake looks like the kind of place you’d see on a screensaver—glass water, pine shadows, mountains so still they don’t even bother with clouds. I thought I’d find quiet here, the kind that fixes something. Instead, the silence pressed in. I sat on the dock, phone out, trying to frame the view for someone else’s approval. I never posted the photo. It felt like lying. Sometimes you go somewhere remote thinking you’ll come back changed. Sometimes you just end up alone with the same noise in your head, only louder. Echo Lake didn’t echo back what I wanted. It just gave me myself, unfiltered. #Travel #TravelConfessions #AloneNotLonely