Wednesday, 15-May-2024


“Ben, how do you keep your clothes clean on this adventure?”

“Great question, Expositionary-character-version-of-me! You see, I packed laundry detergent sheets, so that I could do laundry in the sink if necessary!”


Now, full disclosure – doing laundry in the sink is my absolute last back-up plan. Technically second to last, actually, since I guess I could just take a shower with my clothes on, and that would sort of work? But we’re not there yet, and hopefully won’t ever get that far. Most of the places that I’m staying, if not all of them, have laundry on-site. That was one of the criteria I’d made for myself while booking stays, in fact.

The van, however, didn’t have laundry. So, sink it is.

I… don’t know what else to say about this. I put the clothes in the sink, dropped a detergent sheet in, filled it with water, and then pretended my clothes were dough and kneaded that pile like there was no tomorrow. Then I wrung them out, hung ’em up to try, and… voila. Sink laundry.