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| Mandy, Peggy, Amanda |
We did it! We found new friends in Oregon. Actually, they found us. We researched "soakoregeon.com" -- SO many natural hot springs in the state. For our weekend to Crater Lake we found the closest springs we could hike into: Umpqua Hot Springs. Since the snow is so scarce this year, the hike was only .25 miles not 2.5miles. The 8 cars in the parking lot should have been a herald that it would not be a quiet/yoga/mystical soak. We arrived awkwardly to scope out who was already clothing-optional, who was soaked into a prune from a sunrise-to-brunch soak, who was hoarding the best-temperatured tubs, who knew where to drape boots and gloves while getting undressed, etc. We rocked our Phil hat and Pussy Hat in our underwear and found enough warm water in which to sit and enjoy nature. Some springs were shallow and cool, some so hot you could only stay 10 minutes. We were rescued by the trio in the "best pool" who invited us over to get out of the hottest water: new friends Mandy, Peggy and Amanda. They were gracious hostesses and invited us to hang with them, took our picture, tried to convince me to get a nose ring, and we all bashed the attempted-ukulele musician who thought we all wanted to see his ding-dong bouncing in the breeze. (We didn't.)
Our evening included a walk into town, (which looked like a ghost town,) and not playing cribbage while Judd read Fort Klamath history to me.
We were apparently in the "Asian Room" -- it cheered me exceedingly, to move Janet's chachkes to different shelves: Budda, here, geisha, there. We made photo ops with Clyde, our Ryley-made sock monkey, and the Asian maiden...... Judd's cell-phone-in-a-dish playing Pandora favorites.
It was especially nice to meet new people in Oregon today, with shared visions (i.e. too many ding-dongs at hot springs; appreciating pussy hats)
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Love the Pussy Hat! You guys were great! Lets make this trip an annual event! Same time, different hot springs!
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