For "on the road," I would probably use local laundromats. Bring in a
book and an mp3 player with earbuds and relax.

I don't do much in the way of road trips but an annual event for me in
September is to camp for two weeks on the bank of the Deschutes river. I
don't camp where there are any facilities or amenities other than a
place to park the van, pretty scenery, and quiet. I don't take two
week's worth of clothing, so I had to find a way to wash up me
unmentionables and suchlike. I found that a five-gallon bucket, a Gamma
Lid, and a toilet plunger do a fine job of laundering the clothes.

Like <http://fivegallonideas.com/washing-machine/>

One load requires a wash and two rinses. I do have plenty of water to
work with, having that river right there. There doesn't seem to be any
such thing as a soap suitable for laundry that is 100% harmless to the
environment -- even dumping the wash water on the ground it's gonna soak
in and probably cause all kind of trouble for the local bitty little
critters and plants and fungi and soil bacteria. I use Woolite which
seems about as gentle a soap as I can find.

For drying, a clothesline works. Of course, nothing dries slower than
cotton.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 12/29/2014 01:58 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
> I am well aware of all the creative clothes-washing apparati that have been
> featured on this list over the years, but I couldn't help but pass this
> (expensive) idea along.
>
> It's called the Scrubba, and is available from amazon.com.
>
> <http://www.climatestore.com/scrubba-washbag>
>
> Makes me wonder if any old drybag would work.
>
> Jim
>