Thursday, September 20

Pool Days, 9.19.07

We've been finding swimming pools wherever we go: at campgrounds, at hotels, motels, hot springs pools, YMCAs. The pools act for me as a sort of elixir, a reset button, taking us on to the next set of days and nights spent out in the world. I've taken to doing ballet exercises in the pool, and Jesse seems also to have found his way to some sort of anachronistic aerobic exercises in the pool. I think the water is serving as salvation from hours spent sitting in the car.

Tonight, we are at Lolo Hot Springs, on the border of Montana and Idaho, where we are camping right across the road from the pools. It's cold outside, but the indoor springs pool, a sort of wooden room with vaulted roof, was lovely and hot. Jesse saw that the springs had a 30% nitrous oxide content, and we're good and dizzy after a long soak. WiFi seems to be everywhere, so tuning in before we head deep into further woods through Washington and Canada. Look for us again around Vancouver, around Sunday. Oh, I am looking forward to Vancouver!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You guys went to an onsen? COOL! onsen is japanese for hotspring if you didn't already know and is one of the few japanese words i know.