I don't make it completely clean to the hot springs. Everywhere you look there are bat dumpings and the smell is overwhelming.
Hot Springs National Park ; the smallest and oldest in the system. Center stage is bathhouse row; luxurious, opulent spas from the fabled past.
Hot Dog Johnny's, along Route 46 in Buttzville (heh heh!), New Jersey.
Route 46 was a major east-west throughfare before Interstate 80 was built, and Hot Dog Johnny's, which opened in 1944, is a pristine reminder of what roadside architecture and cuisine were like back in the day.
Altyn Arashan (Golden Spa in Kyrgyz) is a hot-springs hotel located in a high mountain valley above Karakol. Don't let the term "hot-springs hotel" fool you - this isn't your typical spa.
Ute Chief Spring, one of the many mineral springs in Manitou Springs, Colorado which is located at the far end of town.
My co-pilot taking a lunch break under the wing for a bit of shade in Baja.
Ultralight travel is both slow and scenic.
Albuquerque, NM
Feeling away from it all in the midst of an active volcano.
The idea of a day at the spa evokes images of pampered luxury; one certainly doesn’t think of lounging around inside of dank concrete sheds… unless one is thinking of the Altyn Arashan hot springs “spa” located just outside of Karakol, Kyrgyzstan.
A long exposure shot in Eureka Springs on November 3, 2007.