Monday, November 11, 2013

11/11 Hot Springs & Bat Wings (The South, USA)

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!

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