Some friends and I took a couple days at the beginning and visited several of the outstanding hot springs along the eastern Sierra Nevada in California. And after Simnuke, I had planned on going to visit more springs in Oregon and then Idaho. Particularly Idaho. I had heard that there were more springs there than anywhere else in the States. I didn't know if it was true, but it sounded great, and I was going.
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