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Step 16Bathing in Public
Tim: A cup/tub/bottle of water and a washcloth or shirt can be used in any restroom
stall. A friend used to always talk about how great mcdonald's restrooms are
for taking a bath.
My mom said her mom used to tell her 'A lady can take a bath in a teacup".
Somehow I remembered it as "drown in a teacup".
A friend of mine once said she'd just had a "whore's bath" meaning washcloth
and basin.
My roadside bath is a jug of water over my head with my thumb in the neck. I'd
always thingk "statue of liberty". I leave my boxers on if I'm too lazy to
walk into the bushes. Then I'd wring them out. Laundry done, and usually
enough water for the shirt too.
Usually it was hot on a crosscountry drive and I'd put them on wet for some cool.
I'd fill the jug up at a gas station if I was driving. Hot water if it's cold
out, then the cold is no problem. I'd use my cooking pot for hot water if I
was on a roadless trip and feeling decadent. But usually when I'm itchy for a
bath I don't care about cold water and just go for a swim.
If I wanted more privacy at my roadside shower I'd open the car doors and
clamp an end of my poncho in the car windows, making a shower stall
just outside the car. Not such good privacy from the car side,
but usually people don't try that hard to gape at someone who's trying to
get clean.
When I was addicted to windsurfing I'd fill a jug with hot water beforehand
and wrap it in my coat while I sailed off.
Then when I got back to land I'd get naked in the parking lot and shower -
cold november new england night in an empty parking lot in Southie.
Once a guy approached and tried to talk to me while I was jumping around naked
taking my shower. He said he wanted me to come to a prayer meeting.
Motorcycling through europe I'd get a couple liters of water at the last dark
village before camping. One to drink and another for my bath/laundry.
Right turns onto smaller roads then into an orchard or scrub.
Lay down the bike and chain it to a tree, pitch tent with no lights.
No line of sight to road, trail, or house. Paranoid/shy from solitary travel.
100 days trespass camping between morocco and sweden. Usually I didn't know
where I was.
Bathe and wring out clothes. Hang it on the tent. Dry by morning. Or rained
on.
Eventually the shirt went to pieces in my hands from wind and sun.
Star:
If I had a place to stay, I'd take my clothes with me into the shower and wash the dirty ones along with myself, and squeeze them out when I was done with the towel.
If you can't wash your clothes, just wrap them around a bunch of mint tea bags, so at least you'll smell like a strong mint.
stall. A friend used to always talk about how great mcdonald's restrooms are
for taking a bath.
My mom said her mom used to tell her 'A lady can take a bath in a teacup".
Somehow I remembered it as "drown in a teacup".
A friend of mine once said she'd just had a "whore's bath" meaning washcloth
and basin.
My roadside bath is a jug of water over my head with my thumb in the neck. I'd
always thingk "statue of liberty". I leave my boxers on if I'm too lazy to
walk into the bushes. Then I'd wring them out. Laundry done, and usually
enough water for the shirt too.
Usually it was hot on a crosscountry drive and I'd put them on wet for some cool.
I'd fill the jug up at a gas station if I was driving. Hot water if it's cold
out, then the cold is no problem. I'd use my cooking pot for hot water if I
was on a roadless trip and feeling decadent. But usually when I'm itchy for a
bath I don't care about cold water and just go for a swim.
If I wanted more privacy at my roadside shower I'd open the car doors and
clamp an end of my poncho in the car windows, making a shower stall
just outside the car. Not such good privacy from the car side,
but usually people don't try that hard to gape at someone who's trying to
get clean.
When I was addicted to windsurfing I'd fill a jug with hot water beforehand
and wrap it in my coat while I sailed off.
Then when I got back to land I'd get naked in the parking lot and shower -
cold november new england night in an empty parking lot in Southie.
Once a guy approached and tried to talk to me while I was jumping around naked
taking my shower. He said he wanted me to come to a prayer meeting.
Motorcycling through europe I'd get a couple liters of water at the last dark
village before camping. One to drink and another for my bath/laundry.
Right turns onto smaller roads then into an orchard or scrub.
Lay down the bike and chain it to a tree, pitch tent with no lights.
No line of sight to road, trail, or house. Paranoid/shy from solitary travel.
100 days trespass camping between morocco and sweden. Usually I didn't know
where I was.
Bathe and wring out clothes. Hang it on the tent. Dry by morning. Or rained
on.
Eventually the shirt went to pieces in my hands from wind and sun.
Star:
If I had a place to stay, I'd take my clothes with me into the shower and wash the dirty ones along with myself, and squeeze them out when I was done with the towel.
If you can't wash your clothes, just wrap them around a bunch of mint tea bags, so at least you'll smell like a strong mint.
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Oh, and acting like a lesbian = ok, but in some countries BEing or SAYing you are a lesbian is not always ok. (or may not yield the intended response)
Language: learn how to say "please help me" in any country you visit, also the honorific and please and thank you. Sil vous Plait and Dhannyvaad
A film canister is a good money hiding place. Also sewing little pockets into everything.
If you are a girl, a long skirt and a scarf or two. (Esp. in modest countries ) Or buy one locally. Scarves also make good sarongs, clotheslines, etc.
Needle and thread sewing kit. Instead of a scissors tuck a#10 Exacto knife blade with some braided floss tied through the hole.
Use Rope Bondage (nsfw) techiques for securing your backpack. Keeps straps from getting ripped off, and can secure your pack to buses, cars, hostel beds.
I want to travel the world with you too Star!
Also Eucalan for washing. NO RINSE= LOVE! especially good for wools.