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Come morning we packed our stuff and got some cryptic sounding directions to a nearby natural hotsprings. "Turn right at the green church, follow the dirt roads, you'll find it."

 

And find it we did.

 

The locals call it The Hottub, it's just the right temperature or maybe a little on the hot side, and is apparently guarded by that humungous german shepherd on the right. He ran to us with menacingly bright eyes while his owner lazily shouted from the tub "Friend! Friend!" and the dog seemed to be ignoring him as he came up for a rowdy sniff. He was a great dog though, and his owners were great too. As we met more and more locals out in the proverbial middle of nowhere, and everyone was so nice, we started to think about the myth of the Dangerous Stranger. It seems we're always reading and hearing about various Dangerous Strangers doing awful things, and it keeps everyone on their toes and on the lookout, but we realized neither of us had ever met a stranger who really qualified as dangerous, at least out of a city. I'm not sure if it has something to do with soaking in natural hot water and minerals, but we were pretty convinced the media culture is for some reason pitting everyone against each other to keep the consumer machine moving. Hmm...

  
 

 
       
   
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Wow! That looks like fun! I guess the hot minerals crystalize and form that volcano like shape. Really cool.

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mmmm, a very DEEP soak.
~spackle

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wait a minute. just ONE minute. In these very web pages, wasn't there your encounter with the frick and frack types somewhere up north? You gave one of them a ride back down to SF and were happy and amazed to have survived the trip?

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i think it's a rare man that meets a frick or frack, but i've yet to hear of a woman who hasn't met at least a dozen.

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nah. I don't agree. frick and frack ness is not gender oriented. they just frick or frack you differently depending

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If you project frick and frack, you attract frick and frack. The media likes to keep us afraid. If we all stay locked up in our house scared to death watching TV than we are more easily controlled and manuipulated and duped into buying their corporate sludge.

I myself perfer the sludge at the bottom of natural hotsprings in the middle of nowhere. -Red frog

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i must project frick and frack constantly then...although I have to say I'm not AFRAID of the frick and frack type...i must have an open face cuz everywhere I go they like to talk my ear off. The best was when one grabbed my arm and said I might think I own something, but everything I thought I owned is actually belongs to him. I had to laugh cuz all he got was a bunch of used books. he didn't like it when i laughed...but on most levels I do agree with the idea that we're conditioned by the media to fear others: home security systems and guards, gated communities, the Club, political ads.....by the way ms. red you played a mean tuba las night at the ammiano party! LOVED it!

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i must project frick and frack constantly then. on most levels I do agree with the idea that we're conditioned by the media to fear others: home security systems and guards, gated communities, the Club, political ads....
In places where we're isolated by cars (which would be most of america) the fear is greater. The unknown is always scarier. People in suburbs only have contact with the outside world (meaning people in a neighborhood a mile away)through the media. Most of the time simple actual contact is enough to change that. (I speak from experience.)By the way ms. red, you played a mean tuba last night at the ammiano party! LOVED it!

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Hats off to Hugh Mann for the nice picture
-DEADPAN Zabriski-

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STAR DATE 2-27-01 ME AND MY FRIENDS HAVE HEARD OF THIS TUB BUT 4 SOME REASON I THOUGHT IT WAS MUCH BIGGER THAN THIS PIC...I THINK WE WILL STILL GO BUT NOT 4 THE TUB OR THE WATER,JUST 2 GO!!STAY COOLLLL..

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When the hot water got a little overwhelming we followed directions to another hotspring. We were well cooled off by the time we found it after the obligatory period of getting lost. This one's called either The Syphon or Little Hot Creek, depending on whom you ask, and it's fed by this amazing hotwater stream.

 

The stream itself is waaaay too hot to soak in, but by the time the water reaches this little tub it's fine.

 

Unfortunately it was filled with people from Los Angeles who'd just met each other, and they were marveling at how they had to come way out here to meet their neighbors. Great for them, but for us it meant a really noisy hotspring, with people hooting and hollering and fantasizing about a helicopter airdropping some Coors Light. Why is it that whenever I see people from L.A. outside of L.A. they're always talking about how much they respect people who live "in places like this," while simultaneously showing complete disrespect for them and everything around them? And besides, the guy at this end of the tub kept reminding us of a game show host, so we had to pack it up.

  
 

 
       
   
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People who can tolerate live in L.A. should really stay put.

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stay out of L.A
u can't handle it

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I feel sorry for people who think that everyone from L.A. is like this. We have many Yahoos here. SF is just smaller so we have less of them. I bet your a tourist of L.A. that goes to show that we of the phreaky stay hidden in the best spots of LA. This way the Yahoos don't find us unless their lucky or family.

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they were there to back up you "dangerous stranger" hypothesis. get out of the city and the myth fades away, so they're free to meet each other.
LA does have it's sweet spots and good people, but i sure wouldn't live there.

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Wrybread! it takes all types and all types are everywhere. I bet there's even some people who drink Coors light in your fair city. You may even know some of them...

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besides, Los Angeles has beautiful light

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i don't like la-la. i visited my brother and sister who live in santa monica and pacific palisades and all around was this intense competitve sexual energy. it reminded me of universe on an especially catty night. but that doesn't explain the keystone people of course.

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I went to the shopping mall
the other day
there were lots of people there
shopping.

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LA, beautiful light? I think that's the effects of smog you're thinking of...

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no. I'm talking about the light.

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Not like there is anything wrong with being a game show host. In fact, one of my major goals in life is to become a game show hostess. Peter Tamarkin (of Press Your Luck) has always been a hero of mine, but I swear this guy at the end of the hot springs looked just like Wink Martindale. -Red fish

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HttP://darklady.com very innocently asks "Are you from LA ? How much have you had to drink ? "

"Yeah you've had enough there's great spot up by the falls to swim ... "



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HttP://www.darklady.com very innocently asks "Are you from LA ? How much have you had to drink ? "

"Yeah you've had enough there's great spot up by the falls to swim ... "



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nothin wrong with a little coors now and then. it helps one to appreciate good beer...

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wher are these hot spots, i am returning to dv, eureka dunes in 2 weeks and could use a hot soakin with gin n lee!!

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