carson hot springs, carson city, nevada

the process of leaving san francisco involved many fits and starts. one of my numerous humorous dilemmas was deciding upon the perfect song for starting the road trip; did i want 'road to nowhere' by the talking heads or 'driving on 9' by the breeders? these are important issues.

after driving a few times around the neighborhood, finishing up errands and making sure that everything was comfortable enough in the car, i finally found myself on the road and at the beginning of my six week, cross country road trip. sailing the car onto i-280, i felt that the proper thing to do would be to play 'driving on 9' because there's that one line about carson city.

there's a ramshackle little motel just on the outskirts of carson city which goes by the somewhat generic name of 'carson hot springs'. their claim to fame is that they have have naturally fed hot springs which are associated with the motel. the water from the springs are routed into about ten separate private tubs. each tub has a different temperature; you choose which temperature/tub you want and for a mere $15, the next two hours are yours in blissed out mineral hot spring solitude. the sort of weird thing is that the tubs are just little concrete rooms which kind of resemble prison cells. there's none of that hippie redwood stuff here, starshine. the outside pool, where the locals lounge around on those giant nerf noodle things, is large and sunny, but i opted for the surreality of the hot spring prison cells instead.

the motel rooms at carson hot springs are the kind of motel rooms that you would imagine you'd be staying in if you were on the lam and had to lay low for awhile. they're tiny, a bit run down and most of them have long term residential tenants. the funny bit about my room was that only the hot water seemed to work.

day one of the road trip and so far, i've made it to a hot tub, the car is still driving and nothing has exploded.

these are good things.

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