El Dorado Hot Springs

We pulled out of Usery Mountain Regional Park this morning and headed west on I-10 to the small town of Tonopah, where we are spending the night at El Dorado Hot Springs. This is our first experience with soaking in hot springs. Don't know if the minerals are especially helpful, but spending the afternoon soaking and sunning was very restful. Right now the restful tone is being disturbed by the flock of Great Tailed Grackles that decided to roost in the bamboo outside our rig.

The trip here didn't start too well, since I sent Ken south of the Loop 202 instead of north. This wouldn't have been too much of a problem, except that route 60 was closed because of an earlier fatality, so we sat in stop and go traffic for several miles before being routed north on Hwy. 101, so it was near 2 p.m. when we arrived, a bit more than an hour later than we had anticipated.

For supper we had salad and leftovers from last night--parmesan crusted tilapia, mashed potatoes, and asparagus--all still delicious.