Goings On Around the Clubhouse

Spring has arrived at the clubhouse in Kempton and the daffodils and forsythia are beginning to bloom. The clubhouse got a paint job and renovations are resuming. At the Arizona clubhouse the daffodils have come and gone but the spring rains have come through and the cactus will be blooming soon.

Alert readers may have noticed that we have removed a name from our masthead, that of my mom Ranney Moss. She passed peacefully into the next realm on New Year’s Eve. Many of you who visited our Adventures Unlimited bookstore in Cottonwood, Arizona met her there. She ran the business for 18 years, from its opening in 2003 until we sold the building in 2021. Always a strong supporter of my endeavors, amongst he other travels she accompanied us on several WEX trips over the years, including forays to Mexico, Egypt, France, Peru, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. We trust that her bold, inquisitive spirit ventures on! We also continue to venture on.

I am scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a conference in Los Angeles called Alien Event. It is at the Sonesta LAX hotel from April 4-6. Check it out and get tickets at: www.alienevent.com

Filming is just completing for the new season of Ancient Aliens and the new compilation show, Ancient Aliens: Origins, is also airing. The show has been going strong since 2008!

Jennifer and I took a trip to Estonia, Finland and Iceland last fall. We flew to Tallinn, the capital of the small Baltic state of Estonia. Our friends and Estonian publishers Kuido and Ilona met us at the airport and took us to our hotel in the old city. They have published my book Technology of the Gods into Estonian, Finnish and Swedish, and they have done the same with Thierry Jamin’s book about the Nazca mummies. The Estonian language is similar to Finnish. I did a book signing and talk at Tallinn’s largest bookstore and then we took a ferry to Helsinki, the capital of Finland. We went by bus to the old capital, Turku, on the west side of Finland and returned to Helsinki to fly to Iceland. It was a very nice day when we landed at the airport in Reykjavik and we got to see a lot of the island from the air.

Our newest affiliated bookstore is Soapy Hollow at 1684 E. White Mountain Blvd., Pinetop, Arizona. It is a shop with gifts, books, homemade soap, scents and Celtic stuff. It is run by Vyktoria Pratt Keating, a soap maker and musician who has worked with Ian Anderson of the group Jethro Tull. The website for the shop can be found at www.vyktoria.com. They are open from 1 to 4, Thursday through Sunday so please visit when in the area.

The bookstore in Illinois is open, so take a drive through the harvested corn and soybean fields on the next crisp fall day and visit. Stop in to browse and play one of the pinball machines, like the new Foo Fighters game or the revamped X-Files game.

My newest book Project Rainbow and the Philadelphia Experiment is now out. Get a copy today! My book, Vril: Secrets of the Black Sun, was published last year. It is packed with new information about the postwar Reich and has an 8-page color section.

I am now on the Cameo website giving personalized video greetings for all kinds of occasions. Cameo has been going for some years now and for a small price I am able to send a birthday, anniversary, or get well greeting, or just a friendly hello, to anyone you choose, even yourself! Check it out at: https://v.cameo.com/e/davidhchildress

Adventures Unlimited and the World Explorers Club now have several YouTube channels. The channels have lots of fascinating documentaries, lectures, Indiana Jones-type movies, and other videos, and it is free to become a subscriber. Most of our movies and trailers are now at the Retro Drive-In website with its movie posters, free movies, rare action serials and more. We are adding movies and trailers all the time, so it’s a good way to while away a few hours on a rainy afternoon. You can access all of this using our Retro Drive-In website at www.retrodrive-in.com

For all you cryptozoologists and bigfoot fans, we also have a bigfoot and monster movie site: www.bigfootmovies.net. This site has heaps of bigfoot and various cryptid movies to watch for free, plus the latest bigfoot news and other fun stuff. Watch them on your tablet after a hard day of legend tripping!

Check out the original Adventures Unlimited channel with documentaries, lectures and more at: http://www.youtube.com/c/AdventuresUnlimited and start watching today!

We also have web pages that are meant to bring pinball enthusiasts, buyers and sellers together. Have a look at www.pinballtrader.us for our top-20 pinball list and other pages. Buy a pinball for your game room! The X-Files game is for sale!

Our affiliated bookstore in Australia is the Nexus Bookstore at 51 Maple Street in Maleny, Queensland. They have a full range of Adventures Unlimited books and other products. Visit them when you are in the area! The Adventures Unlimited office in Kempton is also the USA office for Nexus magazine. Get a subscription today! Have a look at the magazine and bookstore at: www.nexusmagazine.com

WEX manager Govinda Panta in Kathmandu is ready to book your adventure in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan or Sikkim. Whether you would like a day tour of the temples of Kathmandu or a weeks-long trek in the mountains, Govinda’s your guy! Find out about the latest news and expeditions offered by Govinda and Adventure Pilgrims Trekking at www.trekinnepal.com or give them a call at: 977-985-107-7190. Get our popular WEX Kathmandu T-shirt from the Wexmart pages at www.wexclub.com.

As always, keep a keen eye out for possible World Explorers Club future establishments—you will help spread the fun of discovering the mysteries of our fabulous world! Is there a WEX clubhouse to be acquired in your town? Be sure to contact us with any ideas about starting a retail outlet or clubhouse!

Also, send in your classified ad; remember up to 25 words are free for WEX members. We are always looking for stories or links to the latest news, so send those in, too! I also have my own web domain and you can check it out here: www.DavidHatcherChildress.com. So, muddling a sprig of mint for a refreshing mint julep, and settle down to read the latest issue of World Explorer! —David Hatcher Childress, Founder World Explorers Club