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A long-established hotel in the State of Washington keeps the traditional way of bathing. In the some guest rooms, in contrast, an up-to-date Jacuzzi is fed by hot springs water.

I like to spend all day long doing nothing special other than soaking and lying down. It must be better if there is good hot spring water. Such place is in the State of Wyoming.

Portland, Oregon is ranked high in several surveys about the best places to live in the U.S. It is only one and a half hour's drive from the city full of the Modern Hippies to a bathhouse in deep in the mountains.

Soakers in the Eastern United States may recall a famous spa town near New York, when hearing the name of a place, Saratoga. Another Saratoga Hot Springs is located 1,800 miles in the west, in the State of Wyoming.

In Yellowstone National Park, it impossible to find a spa facility where uses the mineral water. However, in a nearby town, there is a publicly owned bathhouse at no fee.

In my childhood, the time was felt longer than now. At a rustic spa facility out of step of times, feel the time passing.

At a hot spring where the spectacular travertine dome is worth the name, I could not help appreciating the nature.

Where did life begin on the ancient earth? The ocean has been thought to be the origin, and scientists explained that hydrothermal vents in the deep water had the necessary energy and elements for life to begin. Nowadays, a new theory is advocated.

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is one of the safest place to observe lava flows. It is Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Around the mountain, hot springs are gushing.

It is one and a half hours' drive from Las Vegas. Tecopa Hot Springs is located near the border of the state of California.