I've just returned from a magical trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you're not a fan
of the west, a trip to an outdoor spa about an hour north of Santa Fe on Route 84,
will change all that pretty quickly.

For a mere $17 for the day, at Ojos Calientes, you can dip deeply into hot and tepid
pools of arsenic water and just detox, let all of your stress flee from from you, and begin restoring yourself. There is a wet sauna (steam) and a hot sauna. My personal favorite was the mud pool. Like kids at play, you gather around a tall urn of chocolate
colored mud, dip your arms in and splatter mud all over your body. You take your fingers and get mud that's thickened around the urn's rim and apply the thicker mud around your eyes and over your face. Then, lie in the ample sun beneath towering rock formations and let the Gods dry the mud into your skin. Wonderful. Once the mud begins to crack, or you wake up, you jump into a pool of muddy water with a pebbled floor to wash off and head to several other detoxing options.

It rained while I was there. No problem. We sat in front of an outdoor fireplace and warmed ourselves.

To relax and unwind, go west my friends, go west.