Tour Diary 2

Tour Diary 2.   24.3.11

Well we finally arrived in Aztec New Mexico, but unfortunately our luggage is still in Phoenix!!

We left NYC at 5.30 this morning in the snow and had a 5-hour flight to get to Phoenix – that flight was delayed and so when we got to Phoenix we had a very short time to get to the connecting flight to Durango.

We were taken in hand by a complete angel of a security guard who started to try to give us directions to our next flight, but when she saw how little time we had she left her desk and escorted us all the way to departure… on a shuttle bus and then past all the security queues through the first class lines and straight to the boarding desk.  She was so lovely and without her we would never have found the way it was so complicated.  She gave us a mini teaching on the way from her old dad who told her ‘Honey if you do a good deed it will always be well received, but if you do something bad… it will come back and bite you in the bum’

Clearest lesson on Karma I’ve every heard.   It was triggered off by the fact that just as we got to the shuttle bus which must have seen her in her uniform and us hurrying to catch the bus, he drove off!!

Nice to see that the American bus drivers and the English have the same warped sense of humour!!

However, our luggage was not ushered through in the same swift way and when we got here, ….luggage remained there!…

Hopefully it will be sent to us tomorrow. We are an hour’s drive away from the airport and this apparently happens a lot, luggage not making it.  As it is, we only have the clothes we stand in.

The Durango flight was in a little plane with propellers, which sounded brilliant when it took off like something out of world war two. I bagged the window seat, which was a smart call, as we flew over the Grand Canyon and the meteorite crater out of Starman.  I half expected to see the UFO over the huge crater, coming to take Jeff Bridges back home…

The driver who met us, was a lovely old cowboy who is an ET Experiencer whose story could have been Steve’s, the similarities were quite extraordinary.  But when he was 30 he told them to leave him alone as his life was full of ‘too much high strangeness’ and they have done so. 

He and his wife are Naturopaths and run classes in Metaphysics and he is also a ‘Minister,’ which is quite a normal thing here, teaching about spirituality and ‘oneness’. (Not quite sure what that means)..They grow and eat all their own organic food and have their own small stock of livestock to supply all they need.   He was lovely and on Saturday we all go to dinner at their house for a sumptuous feast cooked with their produce, apparently the wife is a renowned cook.

Kate who is organizing the conference – (whose proceeds go to promoting the Aztec library each year),  - came to say hello and gave us a lovely parcel of wine, chocolates and an amazing T shirt for the conference which has the speakers names printed on the back so Steve was over the moon to have his name on a T Shirt.  She promised to bring one for me tomorrow, if my clothes don’t turn up!!

Apparently she has a raffle running and the prize is “Lunch with Steve”.  As you can imagine he wants me to buy up all the tickets!!  I’ve refused so he has to socialise!!

The little hotel we are in is an absolute delight  - called ‘The Step Back Inn’ with black and white pictures all around the walls of people who look like Jessie James and his gang and old children’s clothing in glass cases, it also has carousel horses lining our hallway!!  So cute and quaint.

Each room has a different name and ours is called Bowra after a family who came and lived here, from England.  One of the rooms is called The Cole Spencer room and Elizabeth Cole applied to Harvard Medical but was turned down because they did not accept women!.  She then became principal of the Aztec schools.  So much history to explore.  The Native Americans in the area are the UTES and as is often the case they now own the Casinos and are very wealthy.  So Randy, our driver, said they are still scalping the whites, (which I feel is as it should be after all that was done to them!)

I saw Randy come into the airport and he came up next to us at the desk, but as I was so reluctant to say, “Are you Randy” I kept quiet which meant it took another 15 minutes for him to come back and ask if we were the English couple he was to meet…  I think it is an unfortunate name!

On Sunday we will be taken to the 4 Corners area of New Mexico, which has a Vortex to experience.  It is the junction of 4 different states, so apparently you can actually put your hands on the floor and so have both your feet and your hands in four different states at once!

It’s meet the speakers evening tomorrow night with a meal and a get together and then Saturday is the conference with Steve as the ‘Star speaker’ closing the conference with the largest allocated time slot.

Lots of love to all..

Xx