Exploring.....

6:57 am - Friday - November 17th - GNHS - 52° F, humidity 100%, wind 2 mph out of the north by northwest.....heavy fog this morning....that's weird...sunny later with a forecast high of 75° F.  The view this morning.....foggy.....

On this date in 2017 TLE and I were enjoying our 6th Rincon Parkway sunset....this was a long one......↴

Normally we would have been working Thursday, but with the big Thanksgiving blowout coming next weekend (really begins around Tuesday, or Wednesday) this weekend will be a slow one rental wise.  As of Thursday morning we had just one booking, and that was for a 1/2 day on Friday....nothing for Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday yet.  At any rate, with the blessing of our bosses in Durango, Hunter, TLE and I did not open the office.

There are three hot springs resorts on Mineral Hot Spa Road.....Fountain of Youth, Bashford's, and Glamis North Hot Springs.  Of the three Fountain of Youth is the largest, the nicest.  Whereas GNHS and Bashford's are kind of rustic, funky places catering to the offroad crowd, FOY is very upscale, and gentil with paved, lighted interior roads, a very adequate grocery store, and a restaurant to compliment the hot springs.  We have never checked it out, so we decided Thursday would be the day to do just that.

FOY is about 3 miles from GNHS, so we opted to drive over in the VW around 11:30 am for our first visit.  Our first stop was the Sunset Grill which offers copious amounts of alfresco dining.  TLE ordered their Rueben, and I there BLT.  To chase my BLT I ordered a Modelo Negra (beer).  Mine came with fries, and TLE's sweet potato fries.....

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The Rueben

The BLT

.....TLE loved her Rueben, and she is a pretty strict judge of such things.  She has ordered Ruebens all over the USA, so she knows when she's got a good one.  The portions were so large we ended up taking half of them home.  After lunch we drove over to Freddy's Market, and were quite surprised at how well it was stocked.  I would rate it somewhere between a mini-market, and a grocery store.....very nice.  FOY is a full on 'snow bird' destination, and there are a lot of Canadians who migrate here each winter.  There are hundreds of sites with park models, mobile homes, and RV's.  As one might imagine, there are hundreds of electric, and gas powered golf carts carrying these senior citizens to and fro, and one must be careful whilst driving a full size car, that one does not back into one zipping behind you as you are backing.....I almost hit two while doing just that....lol.

We were home by 1 pm, and within a few minutes I was taking a beer induced nap.  When I was young I could drink a couple of brews for lunch and never miss a beat.  Now, one beer is like taking a sedative for me....lol.  After the nap I went outside to tighten some of the ropes we use to hold the 'sail shades' in place.  As is often the case, rope stretches for a few days, and therefore needs to be tightened up every couple of days for the first week, or so.

Around 4 pm I walked over to the hot pools to take another soak.....TLE demurred....I was mainly going for a quick soak, and to watch the sun set, so I wasn't gone long....maybe 40 minutes.  Upon my return TLE suggested we enjoy another fire, so I put some more wood in the portable firepit, and within minutes had had a great fire....

.....around 5:30 pm I noticed the sunset was still ongoing, so I snapped a couple of pictures.....

....then took a picture of all the rope lights TLE and I deployed Wednesday....

.....then a couple more looking from the outside into our 'lido deck'.....

....and with that another GNHS day came to an end.

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