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Strange Clouds over Quartzsite

08 Sunday Mar 2020

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Yesterday afternoon a camp friend and I noticed a strange, dense patch of clouds to the northwest, hanging over the Mojave Desert.  It was an oddly tight mass of cloud, taking up no more space than I could cover with my hand outstretched sideways – in an otherwise clear, bright blue sky – except for a thin scraggly cloud that looked like a random release of something from a plane, so small I could cover it with a finger.  Just that fine little thing to the north and the tight mass to the northwest, moving slowly our way in an otherwise bright blue clear sky.  I regret that I didn’t photograph the cloud’s approach, because in the matter of twenty minutes, it had broken into similarly sized, and even similarly shaped, pieces which nearly filled the sky and remained overhead for hours.

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Overhead

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South

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North

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Overhead

 

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Southeast

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Overhead east

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West

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Moon in East

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A Year and a Half on the Road

05 Saturday May 2018

Posted by Jean Eisenhower in mind control, targeted individual, Travelogue

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Hi All,

Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged here, and I hope to fill in more details eventually.  Meantime I need to tell you the Good and the Bad – the beautiful camps and the highway crash.

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Meantime, life continues to amaze me – as I’ve seen so much beautiful Nature – and human-made things like the planosphere above – made of solid slabs of – redwood? – with crystals (lighted!) that mark the stars!  I saw this in Slab City – in a community called East Jesus – but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Homeless

In September of 2016, I found myself unexpectedly homeless!  I’d felt moved to sell my home in Silver City, but had been unsure until I was promised a small (and humble) but MOST lovely place to live in Nature – by a friend who managed the place.  However, after I sold my home and moved all of my belongings from New Mexico to Arizona, I learned that the current tenants of the home I’d been offered had chosen not to move, leaving me with nowhere to go and 4 storage lockers jammed to the ceilings with my possessions in chaos – and winter approaching and winter clothes impossible to find.

Since I didn’t want to live anywhere else nearby, and couldn’t afford to rent indefinitely, I opted for a new/used travel trailer and a new/used truck, and I hit the road looking for a new location that “called.”  Nothing called, but “the road.”

My first year, I traveled all around the West, visiting long-lost friends and incidentally visiting many beautiful places.

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For my second year, I knew I wanted only one thing:

To Be of Service

September 2017, I spent the entire month doing annual maintenance on both vehicles – and then headed out in search of whatever Service work Spirit might lead me to.  My first week after the maintenance was done I spent working for my old best friend from grade school and high school, helping her move.

On October 7, just forty miles from my storage lockers where I intended to take care of one last reorganization, my trailer seemed to be remote controlled*, went into a most extreme series of increasing fishtails (despite my having experienced them and having pulled out of them before – easily, I could not control them this time), and the trailer fell over, pulling over my truck and me in it.

Thankfully no other vehicles were involved.  I awoke from unconsciousness, hanging sideways in my seat restraint, freed myself carefully, climbed out the back window of the truck, and proceeded to convince myself and everyone else that I was “fine.”

(*The timing and circumstances of this crash were both extremely weird.   I’ll explain them both later.)

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Day four, I woke in extreme pain, realizing that my bed sheets (taken with my mattress from the trailer, opened up during the crash on the highway, and then laid as they were on the floor where I slept) were filled with road grit from the accident – that I’d never noticed the last two nights!  I also sensed for the first time that my spine was severely messed up and I had a concussion and could feel my brain swelling – and would for the coming weeks and months. Having not realized that, I’d done an incredible amount of work to move my belongings for the previous 3 days – work I should probably not have done.

Needing Help

Eventually both spine and brain were healed; however, not wanting to burden anyone (after all, I had just left my long-term community and was now where I knew only a few people and not that well), I carried all my own (ten) bags and boxes everywhere, into and out of each home that gave me shelter, tried my best to do for myself, cooking and organizing as well as I could, but unable to find the mental or physical energy for necessary things I thought I could do for myself – but couldn’t:  remember to pay bills, find the supplements like fish oil that I desperately needed, etc.  It was an extremely forlorn and painful time.  I moved 10 times in 10 weeks.

Mid-November, I was so depressed by the moving and situations that didn’t help healing (like loud TV when I desperately needed to sleep), that I HAD to find my own home.  After two weeks of searching the Internet, comparing prices and driving a few rigs, on November 29 I purchased a new/used rig – no truck and trailer this time, but a truck and camper, both older and more beat-up than my crashed rig, but what I could afford with the partial payment from my insurance company and a little borrowed money.

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The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous

After 6 weeks of re-outfitting (it takes longer than you might imagine), I discovered online the CheapRVLiving.org site and the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous it sponsors every January – for people living inexpensively on the road.  South of Quartzsite, Arizona, it was too near to not attend, so I traveled there alone, picking up a solar panel kit on the way.

The RTR was a fantastic event, with an impressive demonstration of humans’ ability to believe in and practice a “gift economy.”  When I began working on my photovoltaic system my first morning there, a stranger offered to help – and continued to help after dark (!) till I was almost finished (just ring terminals to go, which I didn’t have).  That evening, visiting neighbors, I scored a couple of ring terminals, and finished the job first thing in the morning – generating my own electricity on day two.

Of course, throughout the coming two weeks, I offered to help other women with their solar systems, demonstrated solar cooking three times, led an impromptu rocket-stove building workshop, and gave away a lot of stuff on the “Free” blanket.  The entire gathering was wonderful and inspiring.

In Service again

There is much more to tell, especially the Service work I’m doing currently – helping a friend in serious need, whose details I’ll keep private.  In brief, I’m honored to be helping again.

As for the “Remote Control”

Uh…  Too long a story.  I’ll blog on that next.

[I recorded the story in a midnight video here.]

Meantime, I hope this serves as a “catch up” on the last 19 months – not counting the single Travelogue last Spring that had no context.  This is the context.

Okay, catch you later ~

(Soon, I hope.)

Jean

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Travelogue #5

17 Wednesday May 2017

Posted by Jean Eisenhower in Travelogue

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Yes, yes, I intend to post my first four travelogues soon, but I have to hit the road.  So, here’s #5 for now:

Hi Friends and Family,
Shortly after my last travelogue, I woke up to snow!
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When it cleared, I broke my solitary camp to go meet the Arizona “Loners on Wheels,” who turned out to be a very enjoyable group of folks to hang out with.  I took no photos (seemed rude when I’d just met them), but for my two days with their small group, I enjoyed two campfires, chats about trailer maintenance and repair (always welcome), and a walk to the lake where we watched bald eagles dive for their dinner.
This Arizona chapter of the national group takes a break for the summer, so I’ll probably join up with them again in the fall, but if I connect with some California “LOW’s” while I’m there, I might just join the group sooner.  We’ll see.  (Most full-time RV’ers join a number of groups for the camaraderie and the wide range of information that’s shared.)
Before pulling away, I took a 4-mile solo bike ride to “The Rim” (Mogollon Rim) – my first time on my own bike, I’m sorry to say, in a couple of years, and I’m super happy to have gotten back on wheels again.  And The Rim, of course, is spectacular.
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(I guess selfies with our cameras make our faces fatter, which is why people buy selfie poles???  Whatever.  I haven’t gained 30 pounds like it appears.)
Oh yes!  Another exciting thing I almost forgot, speaking of pounds:  When I went into the Rim campground area, planning to spend 5 days alone, and 5 days with the LOWs – ten days, count ‘em – 10! – I went with a fridge full of fresh organic produce, and NO chips or crackers or chocolate or meat.  Just felt like a good time to clean up the diet.  I worried that I’d go crazy “needing” those other quasi-foods, but I didn’t!  (I even skipped a LOWs potluck to keep to my diet.)  I feel pretty dang good now.
When I finally got back into cellular range, I learned that my mother was in the hospital! – just before Mother’s Day! – so I left to spend a couple of days in Scottsdale, which turned into 3 1/2.  Down in the valley, I learned that my parents were both considered highly contagious, and so I didn’t get to see them right away.
With an unknown number of free days in the city, I decided to take on a project I’d been mentally designing for awhile:  a shell built on the back of my truck to replace the tarp and cargo net that flapped in the wind, caught rain into pools between my things, and was generally unattractive and a hassle to find things and a hassle to put back together.
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Once I’d begun it, my brother helped me re-design and build it.
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And I love it!  I can find everything so easily now, and it’s secure.  I am deeply indebted to John for his Sunday afternoon, helping me take the project beyond four uprights!
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Trying to start the cross pieces on top of two uprights – alone, cuz John was at church when I just “had” to begin – resulted in a smashed finger that will probably lose the nail.
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No, I didn’t smash it with a hammer or anything so expected.  While trying to bungee one end of a 2×3 on top of an upright in order to work on the other end, the far end of my 2×3 slid off it’s sloped top (duh) and caused my end to bounce – sharp and fast with my finger underneath.  I stopped work, sat and breathed awhile, then wrapped it up and found other things to do until my bro got home.
I only hoped he’d help me with two cross pieces (though I was willing to let him work along with me a little for a brother-sister activity), but he worked all day and into the evening, even though he had to be up at 4:30 the next morning!  We had a great time together, like we haven’t had in decades, and I am happy with a newly-forged bond with my younger bro.
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The next day, I primed the wood and bought charcoal gray paint to match the detailing on the truck and trailer.  The gray paint is so dark, though, I think my truck might look like a saddle shoe when it’s done, but that’ll be fun!
I also added handles, latches, and locks to each door to keep things secure inside.  Notice the Sun Oven?  Yes, I use it regularly.  Love it.  (Of course.)
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As you can see, this is not totally weather-proof, but it’s a whole heckuva lot better, and completed in just a day for $200 – about 1/10th the real deal of aluminum or fiberglass.  Actually, $300 when I add the paint and hardware.
Final design:  My solar panels ride on top of the truck, connected straight to the batteries on the trailer.  If I need to park in the shade, they are easy to slide off and move with their 25’ cable.  SO much better than what I’ve been hassling with!!
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On my last full day in the city, I skipped a meeting with my folks at the doctor’s office, cuz I was covered in paint, but they came over to my brother and his wife, Kim’s for a great dinner afterward.  I was happy to see them both appearing in good health.  (No one remembered to take a photo the other night, but this is recent, so I thought I’d share it.)
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After two half-days of essential errands (Verizon, Camping World, Ace, Home Depot (for the last of FOUR returns!), oil change, and Glacier water), I’m on the road again – to volunteer at “Contact in the Desert,” a major conference in Joshua Tree, California, where lots of “big names” will be speaking on all the newest in the field – or what the Powers will allow them to disclose.
I have a highly skeptical attitude about a lot of what’s being said in this field, but I do believe there are important nuggets of truth woven in with the “controlled disclosure” that’s being done.  And of course, having had the weird experiences I’ve had, I’m always interested in revisiting my own story to try to understand some of the multi-dimensional aspects of our world that we rarely talk about openly.  It is a JOY to find other people willing to engage in philosophical, spiritual, and personal discussions of this sort.
Well, my smashed finger has had enough typing, so I’ll close for now and drive the last 150 miles to the Joshua Tree Resort, check in, set up camp, and report next week on the conference.
Thank you all for your nice responses to my travelogues.  It’s fun to stay in touch with you.
Much love,
Jean / Jean Ann / Mom ….

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