Hot Springs
Bicycling the Noto Peninsula
When we rolled out of Kanazawa on Sunday morning, we left with one goal: get somewhere with a train on Thursday. As far as I could tell that town was …
Bathing in Tokyo: Edoyu
A couple months before going to Japan, we went over for an evening of browsing travel books at Elliot Bay. Vic talked me out a big pile of things, but …
Sento at the Panama Hotel
It was snowing when Jan Johnson, the owner of the Panama Hotel, unlocked the iron gates and led us down the broken-lipped stairs into the long unused Sento underneath the …
The Dead Sea
We heard that it would feel oily and not like water at all. We had a friend L. say it was over-rated when she needed to rush around Israel and …
Three Days in Galilee
I was raised in the 70's with a mish-mash of Jesus lovin' goodness and fear of the end times. While revival and religion is hardly new, what was new in …
Soaking at Mercey Hot Springs
The West is filled with broken dreams and dusty waysides where businesses came and went. Mercey Hot Springs is one of these places, forgotten when the highway was built further …
Our Canadian Mini-Moon
Harrison Hot Springs is an odd town. It's hard to find anything about it other than the Spa, which sits at one end of the beach front. There are a …
Off-Season on Orcas Island
Doe Bay has a reputation as a hippie hangout, but you have to be a rich hippie it seems to enjoy the pleasures of it. And for a a rich …
Agua Caliente and the Anza-Borrego
State Road 2 runs north-south for 52 miles which follows an old stage route. It's marked as the Southern Emigrant Trail of 1849, which we later learned was a clever …
Bathing in Budapest
The idea of biking to Budapest is due to my love of swimming and its famous thermal baths. It had nothing to do with biking. Basing a vacation around swimming …