One Day ROAD TRIP in the Sierra Nevada Mountains | Travertine Hot Springs and Convict Lake

There's gotta be a lake around here. There's tons of boats. There is. Isn't that nice? Walk to your destination from there. Didn't think we were going to hike today but it's kinda hard not to when you're at a place this beautiful. How is there an entire mountain range that we've never heard of this beautiful? We spent the weekend in Bishop, California having never been there before and realizing just how beautiful this part of California is. We kind of wanted to explore a little bit more. The whole reason we're here is I just researched pretty places and this is kind of something that popped up. What kind of bird is that? Either way, there was really no reason we had to come here, just besides trying to see it and realizing it's far more beautiful than even the pictures online depicted. So, I hope you enjoy it vicariously through us. It's looking like there's a lake just like this 5 and 6 miles away. We're not going to make it today. Can't believe this still. Which way? We're not catching dinner tonight. Hiker Trail that way. That's how I read that. So, we just agree that we should go this way? I think so. I don't know. Look how thick the bark is. 4 or 5 inches. Holy moly! All the snow melt coming off the mountain feeding the lake. I really hope my camera can capture it accurately but this water is like the most beautiful blue. Not quite a royal blue. I don't know. It's just perfect. Amber's fascinated by the color of the water. I'm fascinated by the color of the rocks. And that's your flannel. They're really pretty. It doesn't get much better than this. Nope. It's quiet, clean and free. Doesn't look very busy. It's wild. Just across the street from Convict Lake is Hot Creek Geological Site. There are no signs on the main road for this location. Turn right after the airport and then you'll see a sign to follow it here. A little itty bitty wooden sign. I can smell the sulfur. Cool. I wish I could get in there. Yeah, this has to be the only one because it's the only area that's fenced in. Always uphill. Although it's only one pool, the only other place in the entire country that I know of where you can see something like this is Yellowstone National Park. What makes this better than Yellowstone is there's so many less people, it's surrounded by these beautiful snow-capped mountains and it's free. You can also camp for free pretty much right next to it. This whole area is National Forest and you see other RVers and campers so this would be a great place to post up for a few nights. But this is not where we're going to camp tonight. We've got one more hour drive. Alright, I gotta know. If you've got a view similar to this, even remotely close, are you the happiest person in the world or what? How could you not be? I'm genuinely curious. If you have that view around you at all times, how could you not be happy? There might be enough pools. Yep. I had told Nathan on the way here that I think people can swim naked here. Pretty sure. I mean, whatever. It's like still mid-afternoon and we've seen more than one naked person. Some people are very carefree. More than one age. Yeah. And it was funny, the one naked person actually ended up I think kicking out the other naked person because they felt uncomfortable. So a whole lot of something I wasn't expecting to see to be honest. That's almost too warm. Hot. That is muddy. I'm not sure I'm cut out for hot springs. Hop on in the water. How is it? It's pretty warm. Pretty good. Is it? There's one more down there that we've seen that you can get in. There's a whole bunch of them. I've heard, yeah. I just need to figure out how far do we need to go to find them. Okay, so the main parking is right there. Right. And then there's two I think right at the top. And then the walk down, it's not far at all. And they're bigger and they're less muddy. Keep going, see what we're doing. But the only thing is is those sometimes, for some reason, sometimes. Cool. Enjoy you guys. Thank you. Do you want to walk? Yeah. Much cooler. I'm not really sure how we first got here and these three perfect pools were completely full including the old naked man and we just walked back over and now we have it all to ourselves. I think we scared everyone but I'm okay with it. This is just mind-boggling. We were just at a thermal pool that you couldn't get anywhere near because it was so hot. Several people had died in the past 50 years. Don't go near it. It's scalding. This one comes out at the perfect temperature. Right out of the rock. They got these convenient little pools. Well that happened to be our first time in a natural hot spring for both of us. We were having such a good time but a little known fact about me I kind of really hate hot water. The girl found hot springs. I really want to go to a hot spring. Can't sit in a hot tub for longer than 10 minutes. Not even 5 minutes. 5 minutes, 10 minutes max for sure. I get hot too fast. Like sweaty, uncomfortable. Your whole body can't take it. Yeah, I can't do it. I don't even take really hot showers. But besides the point, we were having such a good time that we're going to run into town and grab some stuff and then come back and set up camp. Where did we get? So they had your noodle soup but instead they also had bouillon. Chicken bouillon. So we can make broth whenever we want. So I got a can of mixed vegetables. We can put whatever else we want in there. We'll make soup and I got a beer. Not a very good beer but I wanted to be like, sweep the legs Johnny and we got a Coors Banquet. We're not going to use any of that. It's okay. One of my favorite things is just first stepping out of the car and checking out the view. It's a pretty good one. Hot springs are right over there. Cozy. That's how it goes every night.