Ahh Spa Day

Life is good. Today was one of those days you dream about if you win the lottery, but it was so cheap you don't have to win the lottery.

First, last night, we had showers and laundry and a hot tub for $30. We even had a babbling brook outside. We took our first shower in several days; at 7200 feet in Pagosa Springs, it took my breath away. I was weak in the knees.

This morning, Dodie drove for an hour before anybody else got out of their PJ's. By then, we were in Chama, a nice high desert area of New Mexico. From there we drove by Ghost Ranch and looked at George O'Keefe's favorite mountain, and then turned east. Our goal: Ojo Caliente. We turned on the spa music on Sirus radio. Ojo Caliente is a little hot springs resort north of Sante Fe. Just a little touch of California. There's arsenic pools, iron pools, soda pools, combo pools, all aimed at healing arthritis, digestion and skin. After you soak in seven pools, you coat your body with mud and let it dry. Wow. Did I feel good after that~ There were an international incident in the mud area though. I wasn't sure what the problem was, but two guys, one American and one German, were having words where each insulted the other's country. I was ready to get dried up and out before the mud slinging started.

Then we got a hot wrap. After you get your core good and hot in the pool of your choice, you lay down in a quiet room and let the attendant wrap you up good and tight and put a wool blanket over you and go nite nite for 30 minutes. An hour later we woke up thinking it was a little warm. They forgot about us. Oh well. It was two fer Tuesday at the spa, $8.25 each. What a little piece of paradise.

Then we motored down to Sante Fe. Enroute we decided that Dodie was going to stay still another day. So here we are in a city parking lot at the cathedral, dry camping next to a security shack for an archeological dig. The guard said it didn't bother him, and we figure the historic La Fonda Hotel is just a block away if we need something. If La Posada would just have a little stronger internet signal, we would be in tall cotton.

So tomorrow we are going to do art on the city square, walk Daisy, maybe go to a Museum, look at art. Then Dodie is really going home, and I am going to visit friends in Albuquerque till Carl comes Friday morning. Boy is he going to be surprised to see Rosabella!