Day 26: Spencer Hot Springs - relaxing and working

Thursday, Oct 24

Our private hot pool with great view of mountains

Today was spent mostly relaxing. David went into the hot tub; I waited for the cool night…since I missed the morning coolness.  Going into a hot spring when it is too hot is like having one big continuous hot flash that you cannot get away from!  We took at walk to another spring up the hill to see what that was like.  There was a lot of algae in it and a bit cooler (yup that one is mine).  It was decided that we would move our rv up on the hill and clean out the tub…yup.  We cleaned it out.  Borrowed a brush from someone (more on him later) and a pipe to drain it.  I scrubbed the sides; David scrubbed the bottom while he sucked out algae with a siphon hose.  We also pulled the plug to drain it.  It took several hours to drain.  But I knew in the morning I would be out there at first light soaking….ahhhh!

Since we were going to be working on the hot tub pool at the top, we moved up there.



One of our campsites with rock spiral art

We have two characters that are hanging out here.  Both are full blown eccentrics.  One works when he needs money and he has arranged his life to not need much; he finds music gigs when he needs money or sells goods at a flea market.  The other doesn’t work but careful buying/reselling of land in California has given him money to live on.  He lives in a homemade rv.  One of them maintains the springs here and people give him “things” (like money, fruit, etc)…like cleaning, adding improvements, etc.  Both are just beginning to collect social security.  Neither have brick and mortar houses.  Interesting lives…but nothing like we would adopt.