Southbound!
We didn't have big plans to stay here but with a name like "Hot Springs" we couldn't just drive pass Bill Clinton's hometown...
Sounds enticing! HOT SPRINGS... in caves, or spas, perhaps?
Nope! Actually, to bathe in the hot springs you have to go to a bathhouse. While many of the buildings that served as bathhouses still stand (on Bathhouse Row), only 2 of them still serve as bathhouses today. The others have turned into gift/retail shops, restaurants/cafes, and this visitors' center/museum.
This is what a typical bathhouse looked like, back in some CREEPY days
The water coming out of that fountain is hot spring water: 143°F (62 °C)
The lobby
Relaxation central !
Jump in!
Or, if you need a lift -
Or have a standing shower :)
Free hot water for everyone!! A Chinese dream come true..
NEXT!
Texas! Texas!
The White Horse in Austin
The cowboys kept trying to pick me up here.
So I showed them -
hee
How Austin eats - via food truck
The most dog-friendly town I've ever seen :D
Past self, meet your future self. And vice versa
By mid-August, more than a million Mexican free-tailed bats call the Ann
Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin home.
so we wait for zee bats
And wait some more
Finally! Can you see them?
No trip to TX is complete without BBQ...
Nom nom nom!
