soul mining showers
Mining: turn of the century miners needed powerful water-pressure to blast the grime out of all known and unknown orifices. knock-you-over, spray-everything in the room, water-jets produce a numbing, heavenly, massage that pummels dead surface skin from your body and down the plug-hole. It’s the kind of shower you take when you’re actually clean for the sheer pleasure of it. These showers covered three states:
- Idaho (Silver)
- Montana (copper, silver, gold, zinc, lead, manganese, cadmium, bismuth, selenium)
- Black hills of South Dakota (Silver, Gold, Gems)
In blast-you-away soul cleansing priority order these were our top shower experiences:
- Ryan Hotel, Wallace in Idaho’s Silver Valley. The town grew and prospered around Silver mining.
- Econo-lodgings in Wall, South Dakota, behind the infamous drug store.
- Hoosiers motel in Cooke City, Montana.
Cowboy: As we moved into the flatlands of the high plains showers lost their skin-stripping power becoming merely powerful. Shower spray lost some breadth. Still superior to the average city shower they surely worked to strip the dust and pollen from a cowboy’s thighs. This thought alone inspired a sufficiently pleasant experience to keep me lingering in the shower beyond mere physical cleanliness.
- motel in Hulbert, Wyoming
- Cosey Rest Motel, Iowa
- Edge motel, Illinois
- Kirtsy’s motel, Pennsylvania
Trucking: these showers are located in low-cost motels placed by the Interstate in areas that are not set-up to blast miners clean or strip the dust from cowboys. Sweat removing showers. They are pleasant. A good shower in a city normally meets trucking shower quality.
- Super8 motel, Wisconsin
Tourist: got some mucky children? Then just chuck them in this nice little shower with a pretend-bath at the bottom and use our pretty motel supplied soap to foam-up and splish-splash away the dirt. A basic satisficing experience. All the sensual pleasure replaced by eye-candy accessories.
- Days Inn motel, Pennsylvania
Toy: now these showers in a gas-station restroom baffled the socks off me. They were only good for washing feet, or maybe they are b-day’s? Waste of space unless you’ve got smelly feet or a squitty bum.
