Date:         Sun, 3 Feb 2002 12:56:27 -0700
Reply-To:     Blake Thornton <thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Blake Thornton <thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU>
Subject:      Showing in van
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Well, I started this thread about a month ago and it was great hearing
everyone's ideas on this.  Well, today, while on the road (actually at my
destination which involved urban camping), I needed a shower.  Well, the
local university was a bit exclusive and wanted an id to get in and
shower.  The YMCA wanted $140 for a memeber ship.  The truckstop was about
a half hour away.

So, I went to target and bought a rope, shower curtain, rubbermaid
container, and a hula hoop.  I then poped up the poptop and hung my solar
shower (filled with hot water thanks to the gas station) from the latch on
the pop top.  I then hung the hula hoop and shower curtain from the pop
top as well and ran the shower curtain into the rubbermaid.  It was
perhaps the best shower I have had on the road next to a real one.  The
only real drawback was the I didn't feel to good about not peeing while
showering, but thats not so inconvienent.

After done, I decided it worked so well that I bought another shower
curtain (one didn't quite make it all the way around) and some carbiners
to make the setup a bit quicker.  I figure that as long as the weather
stays relatively warm, I'll be in great shape with this.

If anyone is interested, I'll take some photos of the setup and post them
when I get back from my trip.

blake