Hot Springs, MT.
Well we decided to head over to HotSprings, MT, and try and soak our bones for a couple of days. Weather here in western Montana is fantastic. Cool mornings, clear sunny days that can reach up to 80 degrees. My kind of Autumn weather. We needed to kick around here for another week while we waited for our new solar battery to arrive from California. Could not find a festival that would work for us so we drove the hour and a half through some nice country to get to HotSprings. The whole town is called HotSprings. It has at least 6 or seven different places you can go and soak. Cute little town , coffee shop, health food store, and cheap camping. The kids loved it. We soaked every day for 3 days and a few different times each day! Nowa made a friend, Auorion he was 4 years old. They swam like 2 little fish all day long in the warm healing waters. Inanna and I tried the “cauldron” one night. It was a smaller pool set into the trees that had a temperature of around 110 degreess Man was it hot. I was able to soak my legs for a bit but when I got in I could only stay submerged for a minute or so. Meet some really cool people at the springs. Seems like the waters attract like minded people and we ended up having some great conversations with folks from all over the states. One guy, Josh, Auorion’s dad, is a rock hound and crystal buyer. He offered me some work polishing opal stones from Ethiopia. Beautiful stones that he buys rough and they need to be polished. After talking with him a while he handed me a a bag with a Dremmel tool and polishing stuff and gave me a 500.00 opal to polish. So the deal is I will take stones to polish and send them to him. He pays me then sends more stones. Seems like something I can do on the road but I’ve never polished any stones before so look out youtube here I come! I will give this first stone a try and go from there. The colors of these stones are amazing. So much flash and fire in them, green, blue and reds. Opal comes from many countries but these opals were found only in 2008 in a vein mined by locals who keep it secret and guarded. We’ll see how it goes this might be another income stream and allow me to work with really nice stones.
The bus is doing great. Ran on veggie oil on the drive over here and all went well. Running low on oil though so will need to find some before we leave Missoula. We have an appointment to get new front shocks on the bus and new spring bushings which are shot. So the plan now is to leave MT. after next week and head west? Southwest? Not sure yet, just looked at the weather in Yuma , AZ and it is around 115 degrees!!
I think we will take our time heading down that way, maybe do a festival in California…