I thought that I would repost my thoughts on the BEST SHOWERS YOU WILL EVER TAKE!!! I can’t wait for that feeling you get when you walk out clean into that fabulous festival sunshine, with that singular view of the mountains and all of the multicolors of the camps and the sweet aromas of food cooking mixed with the music in the air… (A shower at Courtney’s house is the only one that comes close to it!!!) OK, here it is again:
You might be a festivarian if… you lay awake nights trying to perfect your shower strategy!!!
Here’s mine…go in your tent… remove all foul kamping clothing and place in your foul kamping clothing dirty clothes bag…put on ONLY a shower dress/robe and flip-flops/crocs and head down to the showers… once there you will not have to remove socks, shoes, undress, etc… so you are right into the shower… open all toiletries and place in shower… turn on the cold water, start the stopwatch function on your cheap wristwatch, put in your quarters and GO!!! Shampoo hair first, then condition, then body-wash… rinse well; in the remaining time, work on your feet. If the hot water goes off while your feet are still a bit soapy thats OK, the cold water isn’t too bad on your feet only… then you towel off and pop back into your shower dress and flip flops and go back to you tent to dress. Advantages…
You don’t have to schlep clothing to or fro the showers
It takes less time and lets the next people into the showers faster
You are unlikely to commit a “Skivvy foul” on the path. (see Dictionary)
And for those of you lowlanders that think a cold shower isn’t THAT bad if you are tuff enuff… let me assure you that a cold shower in T-ride is a LOT colder than a cold shower in other places… we are talking painful, newly-melted-snow, body-aching, Ron-won’t-fill-out-his-red-thong-anymore cold!!
I want to back-up what Michele said… the water turned cold once on my head about 5 years ago and I can still feel the pain… It felt like someone stuck a frozen dagger directly into my brain…
