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Step 4"No Shoes" and Other Easy Rules
Signage at the front door helps remind new visitors to a super-simple basic rule on keeping the floors clean - keep all shoes outside. Place a sealable plastic bin outside under your entry steps to contain the dusty footcoverings. Covering the seats and couches first in plastic wrap then in fabrics can protect from accidental spillage and guest destruction. Make sure to bring posters, paintings, or other interesting artwork for covering the walls, cabinets, and windows.
It's your RV for the week - make your rules as you see fit.
(Oh, yes, it's most annoying to have just spent 15 minutes outside lacing up your 24inch boots when you realize you forgot your camelback inside - many a time we've crawled in on our knees with shoes desperately dangling in the air as we stretch to reach for that one forgotten item - but we try to not be hypocrites to the sign.)
One controversial RV rule to think about - restricting the use of the toilet from both guests and rentees. Yeah, that's a big reason many people rent an RV, but unless you are getting them pumped on a regular basis... ...after a hot week on the playa, there is nothing in the world to prevent it from smelling bad. Real bad. Scary scary bad. For guests, perhaps provide a map to the nearest bank of johns. The bright side - retaining humility of the quintessential playa experience: the 6am port-a-potty run.
If you have guests over to borrow your kitchen, make sure to stress the scarcity of RV materials. (One person didn't realize how little tank water there is, and after a marathon pot-and-pan-scrubbing while left alone in the RV, used up all the potable tank.) Be warned, you'll probably be pressed to take some friend's trash upon exodus, and it's your decision, but here's to hoping you don't need to stress 'pack it in, pack it out' to any proper playa dwellers.
It's your RV for the week - make your rules as you see fit.
(Oh, yes, it's most annoying to have just spent 15 minutes outside lacing up your 24inch boots when you realize you forgot your camelback inside - many a time we've crawled in on our knees with shoes desperately dangling in the air as we stretch to reach for that one forgotten item - but we try to not be hypocrites to the sign.)
One controversial RV rule to think about - restricting the use of the toilet from both guests and rentees. Yeah, that's a big reason many people rent an RV, but unless you are getting them pumped on a regular basis... ...after a hot week on the playa, there is nothing in the world to prevent it from smelling bad. Real bad. Scary scary bad. For guests, perhaps provide a map to the nearest bank of johns. The bright side - retaining humility of the quintessential playa experience: the 6am port-a-potty run.
If you have guests over to borrow your kitchen, make sure to stress the scarcity of RV materials. (One person didn't realize how little tank water there is, and after a marathon pot-and-pan-scrubbing while left alone in the RV, used up all the potable tank.) Be warned, you'll probably be pressed to take some friend's trash upon exodus, and it's your decision, but here's to hoping you don't need to stress 'pack it in, pack it out' to any proper playa dwellers.
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