A few days ago, I returned from the annual IRVA (International Remote Viewing Association) conference in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. I have attended past conferences on line, and this was the first one that I attended in person. Cloudcroft is situated at 8676’ elevation near the Lincoln National Forest NW of Alamogordo, and is listed as the highest town in the state. Alamogordo is at 4336’. So I flew through Phoenix to El Paso and rented a car to go north to the conference location, the Lodge at Cloudcroft.
Most days, especially if something notable will be happening, I pull a card from my Osho Zen Tarot deck. The morning I left for this trip, I pulled the card “Adventure”. Wow, was that on target.
The adventure started right off the bat at the St. George airport. The flight to Phoenix left about an hour late. I literally walked off of that flight, across the hall, and on to my flight to El Paso. One of the gate personnel shouted “We have a runner” as I went past! Luckily, they were holding that flight for me.
In El Paso, I rented a car and drove the 90 miles north to Alamogordo. White Sands National Park is just west of town, so I went there first to see if it was open in spite of the government shut down. The gate was locked and no one was around.
After doing some shopping, I headed up the mountain to Cloudcroft to check into the Lodge. My room was on the 3rd floor, so I did a lot of climbing up and down during my stay there.
The next day, a lot of the conference attendees were going back down to Alamogordo to visit the New Mexico Museum of Space history. Not quite my thing, so I drove north about an hour to the 3 Rivers Petroglyph site. More about that later.
The next 3 days were for the conference. The speakers were excellent, and I had a chance to make new friends and reacquaint with people whom I had only seen on line. The down side was the sub standard food, and having to drive to another location several times a day for the conference, as the lodge was not big enough for our group. Add to that the climb up to the 3rd floor of the lodge several times a day. I was exhausted by the end. In retrospect, I think that there was something energetically off with the hotel.
I did get a tip from one of the attendees about getting into White Sands. She told me to drive past the entrance about a mile where there was a dune that had spilled over to the highway. One could climb the dune and go under a barbed wire fence and then hike wherever one wanted. So that is what I did on my last afternoon there. As the temperature was 87°, I only lasted about a half hour on the dunes. More about that later, too.
That in itself was another adventure. Unfortunately, I had tire trouble with my rental car and had to call AAA after hiking the dunes. I then had to drive back up the mountain to meet my remote viewing instructor Paul Smith for dinner with a group of his students. Thanks to prompt service by AAA, I made it just in time. Here is the photo of our group.
The next day I could hardly wait to get back to the airport. I am still thinking about a possible toxic energy at the lodge, as I felt better immediately upon leaving there. Today, my pendulum tested positive for an energetic toxin. What it was, I do not know. All of the driving back and forth, and the long lines for food did not help either.
In the next posts, I will share photos from my off site excursions. Those side trips made the whole thing worthwhile!
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