Prerequisites:
- Short run of nylon rope
- A plastic bag without any holes
- Non-cotton clothes - cotton stuff takes the longest to dry
Instructions:
- Locate a hotel with hot water in the evening and that provides a towel (however unclean it may look)
- Buy sachet of washing powder from local shop - 2 rupees (about 1 pence)
- Locate dirty washing - usually found on oneself after a day’s riding on the roads of India
- Mix warm (hot if you are lucky) water, washing powder and dirty clothes in plastic bag
- Have shower while the washing soaks
- Massage bag while you air-dry (important) post shower
- Drain bag into receptacle - usually every Indian toilet has a bucket somewhere - in case you have more than one bag of washing
- Rinse washing in bag or under tap a few times
- Wring out washing
- Whirl washing around to dispel more water
- Violently shake washing - normally getting yourself wet again in the process - to dispel even more water
- Lay washing onto your hotel towel - that is still dry as you did not use it for drying yourself see point 6
- Roll up towel and washing like a chocolate Swiss roll
- Wring out the Swiss roll - transferring water from washing to towel
- Prepare your washing line - not over the bed as it makes it wet I found
- Hang washing and the plastic bag to dry
- Leave room fan on if possible - windows open unless night time and mozzies will come in
- Next morning put damp washing in the plastic bag to keep separate from other clothes
- Locate quiet location (once per 5000km in India) with warm breeze
- Put up your washing line again using motorbike and a convenient tree
- Hang washing in such a away it will not blow of the line into the dust (go to step 1 if it does)
- Write up your diary notes, meditate, watch the world go by etc for a while
- Remove dry clothes and the dry plastic bag from the line
- Place the freshly washed and dried clothes in the bag for proper packing later
- Remember to take down the washing line before riding off.