Showers & Laundry - Van Life

Some of the top questions we have gotten since living in the van are… 1) How do you do your laundry? And 2) where do you shower?

The simple answer to where do we shower, the gym! A Planet Fitness membership is very key especially if you’re traveling throughout the states. There are Planet Fitness locations all over the country. The locker rooms and showers are the cleanest we’ve ever used out of all the prior gyms, YMCA and 24 hour Fitness. The best part is the membership fee is $20/month to use every location nationwide. Not a gym rat? Don’t want to workout everyday just to take a shower? No worries, we have walked straight into multiple different gym facilities head straight to the locker room, shower, change, and walk right out no one has ever said anything to us; some don’t even notice at all.

Laundry? Easy solution… the laundromat . Surprisingly we’re able to wash and dry our clothes much faster than when we did laundry at our old apartment. Since laundromats have so many commercial, heavy duty washers and dryers you’re able to wash and dry multiple loads of clothes at the same time. When living a house or an apartment laundry was at minimum few hours and adding in the factor of roommates it might’ve taken most of your day.

Plus when you arrive to the laundromat you have your entire home with you. We try to plan lunch and a walk with Chief around laundry so we can take advantage of the idle time waiting for our clothes to be done.