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Camping

It was Sarah's birthday and Lou surprised her with a weekend away in the mountains of California. The trip started with the usual two hour traffic getting out of San Francisco and long drive taking Highway 280 to 580. After a dinner break the rest of the drive took them to Highway 5 and finally to Route 198. They reached their destination by nightfall but was used to setting up camp in the dark with a few flashlights and the familiarity of their gear.

They woke up early to make coffee and watch the brilliant sunrise that only the California mountains could provide. The soft dew of the night before was still on the grass and coated the tent. Within a half an hour the dampness was gone by the warm sunlight.

Lou asked, "What do you want to do for your birthday today?"

Sarah replied, "Let's go hiking and see some of the town."

Lou was not a man of many words but he always loved to hike so he immediately started getting ready for a day of hiking. They stopped through town to fuel up and walked around for a little bit, they made their way to the Forest Ranger's office to pick up local maps to ensure they knew what trails were accessible. Lou said, "the Forest Service was always closing up trails every year, probably because of most of the lands being sold off to the United Nations."

Sarah just shook her head knowing that Lou loved conspiracy theorists and kept up on all the underground news channels.

On their way up to the trailhead of Mt. Whitney they slowed down to admire the scenery and see if they could catch sight of any wild animals or spectacular views. Also, the line to get into the area was fairly long and one they were somewhat used to during a warm weekend in California. There always seemed to be ton of tourists standing in the middle of the road or stopping a car to ask questions.

Once they made it to the trailhead they geared up and took the trailhead for a long day of hiking. They were able to hike up to Lone Pine Trail and back for a total of 5.5 miles and an 1,800 foot climb. By the time they got back to camp they were pretty exhausted but took a swim in the lake nearby and came out refreshed. The day was beautiful and they shared photos of their day as they cooked a dinner made of roasted corn, grilled fish, baked potatoes wrapped in foil and tossed into the fire.

The birthday celebration was only just starting as Lou and Sarah had a few shots of whiskey. They finished off the Thai Stick some friends from Thailand had shared with them when they came to visit last summer. The greenish red hue of the stick was so sticky that it stuck to their fingers and the savory smell aired in a puff of smoke around the campsite.

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Lou asked, "do you want to try some Magics and take a journey?"

Sarah knew they had to be ready for a journey and felt it was a good time, after all she only lived once and said, "okay."

They added a sixteenth ounce of Magics to their private party and got ready for a night of journeying. Not many people understood journeying or what it entailed to clear the body and aura of all negativity. There was tons of negative energy one could acquire during daily life of living in a city.

Lou started to tell Sarah that he chose an area of Mt. Whitney that was known to have sightings of Squatch and a vortex that was said to have a doorway to other realms. He made sure to get a campsite closes to the vortex in hopes of seeing a Being walk through a doorway. Privately, Sarah was a bit spooked but kept that feeling to herself. It wasn't until she thought she saw a huge hairy beast sitting in Lou's chair that she nearly screamed.

Lou must have sensed her fear because he quickly came to her side and said, "did you see that?"

Sarah nodded in agreement but could only say out loud, "do you smell that acrid urine smell?"

Loui nodded and said, "yes I do."

Sarah just stayed sitting and continued to sip the Stanley flask filled with 25 year old Macallan and kept an eye out on the hairy beast staring at her. She thought to herself maybe she overdid it with the Shrooms. Either way, it was too late and she had to just go with the journey and not fight the high. Anyone who had ever journeyed knew that was the worst thing to do. She could end up on the other side of the park, naked, and curled up in fetal position never to be found if she didn't just let it be.

Lou seemed to have disappeared to some unknown void, while she felt stuck to the chair and looking at the green eyes and telepathic words of the beat for god knows how long. The beast kept saying, "hello what is your name?" All Sarah could do was stare back with a blank stare until she found enough courage to say, "Sarah."

The Squatch stayed seated until another beast came and sat next to the green eyed one and smiled. The new appeared to be male and had dark black hair, but still had the awful strong urine smell. All of a sudden she thought she saw a small little creature start to make circles around her chair and thought she might lose her mind for a second.

Sarah decided it was time to call it a night and made her way to the tent. She still had not seen where Lou went but trusted that his journey might be better than hers had been. Seeing creatures were definitely not on her bucket list to experience in her lifetime. As she fell asleep she wondered what was that bright light that seemed to be beaming down from the sky? She fell into a deep sleep.

Lou had wandered off to use the bathroom when he thought he heard a woman singing off in the distance. Not only that but he could swear that she started to call his name and beckon him to come towards the mountain. He started to walk towards the voice, it was one of the most beautiful sounds he had ever heard and she sounded really lonely. He walked as far as he could and saw a cave opening and his sixth sense told him to back away and go back to camp.

He was not one to ignore his senses and turned quickly around and started to run back to the fire near the tent. Just as he approached camp he peeked inside the tent and saw Sarah fast asleep. Almost immediately he looked straight up and saw a beam of light so strong that he felt he lost his eyesight.

Memories of his childhood alien abduction came rushing back to him, just as he tried to make a run for it and found himself flying up into the spaceship. He thought, "my god no, please no not again. This cannot be happening AGAIN!" His father had warned him never to go into a forest or corn mazes and to never be caught alone. If he did not listen there was a higher possibility of another abduction. Why hadn't he listened?

All he could do was pray that the aliens did not do what they had done to him in the past. The experiments were excruciating, he did not want to remember what they had done to his penis. The ache of where they had taken a laser and cut off three inches made him want to scream in terror. He did not think he could take another experiment and just wanted to die. For a split second he thought he saw a different type of Being he had not seen before, she looked to be 10 feet tall and very thin. Telepathically she told him not to be frightened and that she was not a Grey.

The Being told him to calm down and all she wanted to do was talk to him, since he had previous experience with those not only human. She asked if he would agree to freely come on board the ship and share his life story with her. Lou was very skeptical and hesitated but if he was honest with himself he was still fascinated with aliens. There was a part of him that always knew they existed and wanted to be on a ship again.

He told the Being who called herself Alora that he agreed to come aboard. Within what seemed like a split second had passed that instead of feeling an uncontrolled pull of force, Lou felt a tractor beam suck him up into the spaceship. Time seemed to have stood still and he was instantaneously face to face with Alora and they spoke of the current state of Earth and its inhabitants.

She shared that there was a great fight in the outer realms over Universal freedom and that there were those who wanted to help earthlings and those that wanted to take earth for themselves and keep humans as food. Lou tried to keep calm and thought he probably should not have had the Magics on top of drinking. If this was a journeying moment, then he would rather be fast asleep in the tent with Sarah.

Alora asked, "are you listening to me Lou, it is imperative that you understand that you must remain strong and be ready to fight for the human race!"

Lou replied, "yes I understand and I will be ready to fight when I get the signal."

Alora was appeased for the moment and went on to explain that there are many humans fighting against its own kind and people in power that have been eating babies and living a life full of demonic worship. They would not want to give up their powers and were building an underground kingdom in Antarctica. It was up to those that were Awake to stay together and defeat the Luciferians. Lou agreed and completely agreed.

After what seemed like half the night, Alora finally said goodbye and told Lou that this was not a dream or a journey and to always remember her warning. They would meet again. Before Lou could blink he was back on the ground and he saw the spaceship flying off into the Universe.

As the sunlight shone in Lou's face the next morning and he saw Sarah looking into his eyes he said aloud, "what a trip that was," and Sarah nodded her head in agreement.

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