I Like to Lie Outside and Watch the Stars

I so understand. I went with another couple to the Esalen tubs in Big Sur. It's a private resort but they open the hot tubs for the locals after midnight--no swimsuits allowed. You take your clothes off in a locker/shower area, and then walk into the tub area. It was winter, so we hurried to the nearest tub--fed by natural hot springs. It was very dark. You put your leg into the tub, and people already there move around like pool full of alligators. The only light is the stars up above. There is the sound of the surf below the cliff. Every now and then someone would stand up to cool off from the heat, but the air temperature was in the twenties so it wouldn't take long before they resubmerged. We got there at 1am and left at 3. Great night.

I always envied friends who had a yard and a hot tub.