No Thru Traffic

I knew that this was going to be a pretty dirty trip – we probably wouldn’t be smelling or looking too nice. But I somehow thought that smelling and being dirty would be my choice, rather than it being forced upon me. That’s until I camped in national parks.

Despite their beauty and general awesomeness, none of the national parks we have camped in have had showers. How is this possible? I mean they get millions of visitors every year, and it’s not like it’s back country camping or anything – we are a couple miles from a town at the most.

Yet none of them have showers.

Just recently in Zion I tried very hard to bathe after a long hike. After all, I have wounds to tend to. But even after riding into town to the local RV Park I was turned away. I was there ready to pay the ridiculous price of $5 for a 6 minute shower yet they wouldn’t have me. Maybe they thought I would clog their drain with my filth. But they said that they were just too full. There wasn’t a single other place within 20 miles of the park that I could offer an arm and a leg in exchange for a shower.

And I wasn’t allowed to bathe at the faucet in camp either. Even when all I was doing was cleaning my wounds a park ranger rolled up on me in his cop car and made me stop.

Ridiculous.

Come on national parks, get with the program, I smell.