a narrow 12)wash. After a mile or so they arrived at a bizarre encampment, where some two hundred people had gathered to spend the winter. At the center of the camp, water from a 13)geothermal well had been piped into a pair of shallow, steaming pools lined with rocks and shaded by palm trees: Oh-My-God Hot Springs. McCandless, however, wasn’t living right at the springs; he was camped by himself another half mile out on the bajada. Franz drove McCandless the rest of the way, chatted with him there for a while, and then returned to town, where he lived alone, rent free, in return for managing a 14)ramshackle apartment building.
他们沿着玻里哥—沙尔顿海道开了几分钟，麦克肯多斯告诉他左转进入沙漠中，沿着崎岖的越野车轨迹，驶向狭窄的干河床。行驶了约1英里之后，他们抵达一个奇特的营地，大约有200人聚居在那里过冬。在营地中心，由地热水井打出来的水，流到两个热气腾腾的浅池中，池畔围着石头，还有棕榈树遮荫。这就是“哦我的天啊热情温泉”。然而，麦克肯多斯并不住在泉水旁；他独自一人在离此半英里的斜坡上扎营。弗朗兹送他继续前行，并在那里和他闲聊了一会儿才回到城里。他独自住在城内，管理一栋破旧失修的公寓，报酬就是免费住宿。
