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Showing posts with label spa. Show all posts

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Carson Hot Springs

This hot mineral water spa is a great value. As I remember it is ten dollars for one hour or for all day. You can have a lovely experience in the private bathes and in the large common pool. Because of a grandfather clause in the laws regulating spas, the waters in this spa are not subject to daily dosing with life killing chemicals nor are they subject to continual filtering and reuse. Instead, fresh water  is continually added throughout each day. In addition the pool is completely drained each night while it is cleaned. Each morning the cleaned pool is refilled with fresh hot mineral water.


This great health giving place is found quite close to the center of the capital city of Nevada, Carson City. It is waiting for your pleasure at 1500 Old Hot Springs Road.


The spa is not perfect. I once found that one of the private bathes seem not to have been well cleaned the night before. I complained and the management immediately offered me a fresh bathe. Still I was disappointed.


Many long time bathers at this wonderful old and well kept spa come early when the water in the pool is fresh and hot from its source deep in the earth. Some bathers call early in the morning to make sure of when to arrive so as not to have to wait for the pool to fill enough to enjoy and to be sure to enjoy the waters at their freshest. I come when i feel the urge. I know that cooled pool water is constantly being drained away and fresh hot water is being added to provide fresh water and to the temperature of the water at its best.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Peak Experience Six

In my previous P.E. post I was getting some satisfaction in an attractive antique shop.

The intelligent, soft-spoken lady with large brown eyes and full wavy hair quickly found the correct website for California Hot Springs. There she got a phone number for the Springs and dialed it on her gem-like cell phone. She talked, then I talked and she took notes, then she talked again.

We found that the closest city to the Hot Springs was Porterville a useful piece of information!

Porteville is a fair drive from Coarse Gold and it had taken me most of a day to get that in mind. I remembered that the spa had been far from most other facilities and that was confirmed. My helper suggested that I reserve a room and I declined. My helper got the number of a possible room source near the mineral spa, dialed it, and passed me the phone. I talked with a ill older woman who said that she was waiting for a call from her doctor. I didn't take the hint and chatted on. I found out that she wasn't accustomed to illness and just begun to feel serious symptoms that very day. She said that they were closed and that even the people who ran the restaurant were leaving for a couple of days out of town. She said that it was the first place on the right after leaving the spa and that if nothing else she would have a key left at the door of number eight upstairs. I t had begun to seem like a reservation!

At the Antique shop I was told to hit the road and that they had been waiting to eat. I'm sure I thanked them. I headed south and managed to get lost several times. If you make the trip I suggest that you take 99.

I arrive in Porterville I the late afternoon supposing that everyone would know were the Hot Springs are. They didn't. One kind store manager called his boss and home and had me ask him. The 'boss' gave me clear and accurate directions and suggested that I not call him at home at dinner time.

Following the directions of the man whose dinner I had interrupted for some distance south without entering the hills, I began to wonder if I had gone wrong. I pulled off at the last house in view and found a man about my age in the back yard with his great grandson and a number of animals. He told me to stay on the road and I would find it difficult to get lost.

The sun went down.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Slovenia

Tell me about the flute of Divje Babe cave. Tell me the history of the Laufarigo Carnival of Cerkno.


Slovenians were among the very early writers of the Slovak language.


Find Slovenia on your world map.


What I wish is that someone would carry this old man to a pleasant little hot mineral water health spa n beautiful Slovenia this spring.