Joe, a reader of this blog, wrote to us today, asking: “How do you handle laundry? That has to be a bit of a pain…”

It’s not that bad. Every campground host knows where the local laundromat is. And when you’re staying near larger cities like when we were in Santa Cruz, there’s almost one every mile.

We pick a day to do errands. The first stop is the laundromat, where I take up three washing machines in a row (whites, lights, and darks). We head off to do a half-hour errand while the wash runs, come back, throw it in the dryer, run another errand, come back, fold and go! That way I don’t spend the entire day in the laundromat and I can do two weeks worth of laundry including sheets and towels. (When we were at the beach, I did laundry once a week.) It’s as simple as that.