It's time we took another solo trip together. This week, we're going to Naked
Hot Springs, an off-the-grid desert mansion made of trash that had some unexpected critters.
Oh my God, oh my God. We're making new friends, and it's also that time I almost overdosed
on coffee. Oh my God, I can't wait to show this to you.
So, I took Garrett to the airport in Albuquerque five days ago.
All right. I got a week left here in New Mexico solo.
And we did a little Breaking Bad tour that was super cool, really fun. And then when
I was watching "Better Call Saul" without him, don't tell him, I was like recognizing
the locations, which was super fun. Then, as illogical as it is, I drove back up to
Taos because I was staying in a little earth house dome. I'll show you what that looked
like. It was really cool and built by women, and I loved it.
Well, well, welcome to this adorable round earth house.
I love just sitting here watching the sky as the clouds go by.
Good morning. And this morning it's like I don't understand coffee or something because
every time I travel and I use a system other than my own, I either make it way too weak
or way too strong. And this morning, look at how dark this is. Oh my gosh, what was
I doing? What was I thinking? I'm just like trying to dilute as much as possible, but
I'm gonna be running laps around this place.
Okay. Time to shower.
I love where you got to get it just right.
Okay, I think we got it. I think we got it.
This is the trick. This is the trick. I showered like that briefly when I was living in Berlin, so,
it was not my first rodeo. You just got to figure out the angles, if you will.
And from there, I had time to kill, so I drove a road that like probably wasn't completely appropriate for my vehicle
and went to this hot spring called Black Rock Hot Spring.
Word on the street is, it's a nude spring, which I can dig. It was really funny, I was reading the reviews of it and one person was like,
"It's not like the ones in Costa Rica or Europe." She was complaining about the nudity, and I'm like, girl, Germany is like
the nudist capital of the world, so, what are you talking about?
Cute. I love it. Oh my gosh. This is adorable.
Look where I'm sitting. Oh, that's [inaudible 00:02:51].
It's even better than I thought. Well, I have to eat first then I'll decide. It smells
like pine here and the birds are singing. There are lots of good-looking things here.
I don't need more coffee. I don't. And yet, here we are. I have an addiction. Holy shit,
this is really strong too. Ooh, look at this.
I got like a half avocado. This looks so good.
I love it when I'm traveling and there are healthy options. This makes it easier. It makes life easier.
All I had was coffee and eggs, but I've been so irresponsible with my coffee intake. I
think that's where I went wrong. Four cups is too many and I know that, but I do it anyway.
Okay, time to soak in the hot spring. This road has been interesting. They're gonna move
over so that I can park, that's nice of them.
Wow. Apparently, I just follow this trail and I'll be down there, but look at this.
That's the road I used here.
Apparently, there's some hot springs down here. I really hope so. I think I found it.
I bet that's it.
That was a popular hot spring. I had to like Austin Powers it to get out of my parking
spot. I would have filmed more, but there were naked people and that feels invasive
so I didn't get the best footage there, but everyone was really friendly and I had a great
time and just getting here's a little bit of an adventure. Check out this bridge.
It's the Rio Grande. So nice.
So like don't judge me, but where is it? Where is it?
Coffee number five. I know I'm out of control. I know I'm out of control, but
I can feel your judgment from here. But I don't know, maybe you're a coffee addict too.
Let me know.
So, this is kind of considered like the flagship earth ship. It's called the Phoenix Earth
Ship. It is like big, beautiful and I'm parked outside of it right now. Let's check it out.
All right, moment of truth. Oh my God.
I met two dudes there named Matt and Taylor and then they invited me over and I went to
a little bonfire at their Airbnb.
Taylor: Are you gonna have it in your hand?
Matt: Oh yeah, yeah.
Taylor: Okay, get it out of the fridge.
Man: Are you ready?
Kristin: I'm ready, yeah.
Matt: Yeah. So we got the Starfruit.
Kristin: Dude, they brought this to New Mexico for hacks.
Matt: Don't fuck around, all right? You need to sponsor us. We're drinking all the seltzer,
we are taking it all over the place. Just all we want.
Kristin: Coast to Coast.
Matt: Yeah. Just send us a few boxes.
Kristin: And me too.
So there were definitely pros and cons to staying there.
Oh my God. Oh my God. If you have a farm in your house, you're gonna have critters in
your house. I don't know how much I like that.
If you want to see the whole tour, I made a whole video about like every detail, so
you can watch that right there. Today I'm gonna go hang out at a hot spring as I mentioned
earlier. Last week, I was like, I'm gonna wake up at sunrise, I'm going to get there
and be the first one there. It's a 5-mile walk each way because I think the gate is
still closed. They close it when the road is muddy, it's springtime. I better get my
ass in gear. Let's see how it goes.
It's now almost two hours since I woke up. I don't know why I'm procrastinating so much.
There's a cat out there. I'm so allergic to cats, but I love them.
Look at this. Oh my gosh. I will regret this. Oh, you like the belly rub? I can never help myself.
I got to go. Oh my God, this moisturizer I bought it makes me look so Jersey Shore but
I paid for it so I'm going to use it up. Bye, kitty.
Ten mile walk from here. I'm definitely not the first person. There is one, two, three,
four, five, six other cars. Oh well, let's go. Here we go.
Five mile walk from here. I have nothing else to say.
This is the Jemez Springs area. I didn't know anything about it, I just knew that there were hot springs and I love hot springs, but it's in this like
beautiful forest and definitely suffered some fire damage lately, but this part is still
beautiful. Really beautiful.
Hello, friends. Five miles is a long way. I hope it's not super crowded. I just looked,
another hour and 20 to go. I shouldn't even have looked. Well, that was a good idea. Wish
I had a bicycle.
Oh, man. I'm like 75% of the way there. I can feel it now. Hot spring. This is a good
sign. Whoa, beautiful river. Look at these beautiful dandelions. Yas, queen. Found it.
Next one. I looked around a little bit and then I was like, no, I have a good thing going
here. It's like medium hot, so perfect.
You wanted to swim too.
That was beautiful. When I first got there, it seemed a little like weirdly tense. No one said hi, no one wanted to like chat, but it's these terraced pools and you can kind
of have your own little area, so I did get this spring all to myself for pretty much
the whole time. Just felt so awkward at first.
Okay. I got baby food. Garrett made fun of me about it. Squash and sweet peas, just seems
like maybe it would be like a good hiking snack. Oh, this is terrible. Bye, pretty river.
The thing about doing 5 miles in, gotta do 5 miles down too.
Yay. It's mid-day too. I could have chosen my timing a lot better, which was the original
plan but I have the Jersey Shore face, so, hopefully, I'm good. Wow. This chipmunk does
not give a fuck that I'm so close to it. There you go.
I'm very sorry to interrupt but while I have you, have you renewed your warranty on your
car? I am so happy to see you.
The cat's just waiting for me. You're kind of irresistible. Get it off.
Look at how ridiculous my tan line is. Good, look at that. Like it's like two fingerprints
where I just didn't get the sunscreen. Who doesn't love a nice tank tan? Story of my
life.
And awfully lazy now. That's sore buns looking at my cow friends while the wind howls outside.
They don't know we're friends, but we are.
Looking for sunset spots, but now that it's getting a little cloudy and I literally refuse
to walk anymore, I think I might just watch it from here with my cow friends. Cows and
I are having a great time watching the sunset from here. Check it out. That's better. That
is gorgeous.
Good morning. I'm dying to see if my friend is here. Are you here, friend? She is. Oh
my God. There she is. How long have you been here? Yeah. Yeah.
I know some people are constantly doing things when they travel, but I can't do that. And
I sometimes just like lay in bed for hours, quite happily. I've really dilly-dallied this
morning. I might've spent an hour on TikTok, so I'm gonna challenge myself to completely
get ready and get out of here in 30 minutes.
Cucumber water for customers only.
Female: Cucumber water for customer only.
Kristin: Okay. Five hours to go to El Paso. Let's get on the road.
Cool. Okay. Got about four hours left, stopped in Albuquerque Whole Foods, and feeding myself. Just four more
hours to go. Yay. Let's go.
The sky, man. It's just bigger out here somehow.
El Paso, finally made it. El Paso.
Spent three weeks in New Mexico and I gotta say, it's been like such a sleeper hit. I didn't expect to love it this much. Well, of course, I hoped it would, but white sands
was amazing, the Beastie Badlands blew my mind. And then the last week that I've been
here alone has been really amazing too. I met amazing people. I was kind of worried
that it would be hard to still meet people now with everything that's going on in the
world, but people are still friendly and want to like bond and meet each other when traveling
alone, and that's just really nice.
Good morning. It's time to go.