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| Shower Tent Set Up in Ocean Shores. Water is Temperature Controlled from Outside of RV. Tent was $35 Locally Sourced |
Trevor Woodford, over on his excellent "
Original Purple Traveller" blog rides his bike when his RV, named "Eva," permits. On a recent post, I inquired about how useful his "Eva the Eriba's" in-trailer shower was. It turned out it was marginal. I noted that I'd seen shower tents that might be just the trick when stopped at a campsite without showers.
This morning, I stopped and got a shot of one that's currently stopped on the owner's empty lot in Ocean Shores. It is shown at the top of this post. The owner noted that it cost $35 at the Aberdeen, Washington Bimart. He also noted that his rig had hot/cold outlet on the outside of his RV that made things really convenient. I suspect that option isn't in the cards for Trevor, what with the cost of British Airways First Class travel nowadays. However, Amazon has a lot of these things in prices ranging from $30 to as much as you want to spend.
It seems to me that smaller ones are best in the "foldable popup" variety. For a little more work, you could get one that is much bigger. Both varieties are shown below. For sunnier days, one could even use one of those solar showers, in which water in a bag is heated by the sun. THOSE are just the ticket for a quick after swim shower when on a boat. Heck, one of those solar showers might even be nice for rinsing off sweat after a spirited bike ride upon return. One thing all these things have in common is they store in little space, are quick to set up or put away, and don't weigh a lot. I'm not sure how Trevor's RV shower experiences have been, but there seems an awful lot of drying down and moisture afterwards to make taking a shower in the RV entirely satisfactory. In-house toilets, on the other hand, are WONDERFUL for those late night times when you have to go and the camp facilities are a long ways off and it is raining...
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| Popup Tent for about $35 |
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| Bigger Tent for about $100 |
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| They Even Sell Solar Showers. Just the Thing for a Tent Where You Don't Want to Heat Water IN the RV. About $12 |
2 comments:
As you say Steve "in house toilets are wonderful" and for all the reasons that you mention....
As for the in house RV shower... in Eva it is too small to be of any real practical use which makes your external shower tent ideas of very real interest...
Last week we had a VW Campervan pitched next to us and he erected a shower tent...he put a 'Porta-Potti' inside and used it as a toilet....
Recently, we talked to the owners of a small Airstream trailer that had no plumbing inside at all, and they were quite happy with it while travelling cross country. Personally, I'd want a way to create hot water other than over the stove or via the solar shower. Still, I think I could live without onboard water storage. On the other hand, a small Airstream costs $40K new and our vintage GMC Motorhome would be pretty spectacular if we lavished half of that on it.
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