Spa World

Full disclosure: The point of this blog, at least partially, is to create a forum to receive feedback on my writing. The story below is long, and not a typical blog post, but if you get through it, I'd love to know what you think.

Also, what is going on with the formatting? Does anyone know how to fix the spacing, etc? Annoying...

SPA WORLD

About 45 minutes outside of DC, in the kind of bland strip mall that makes city-dwellers a little smug, is an oasis of wonderful weirdness called Spa World. The enormous facility is modeled after the more luxurious traditional bath houses in Korea, and prior to visiting for the first time, I'd heard just enough about it to make me both curious and slightly concerned.