Where in the world am I today?: Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, The Caribbean
No that’s not a big bag of cocaine from my last visit to Columbia, It’s a small baggie with laundry soap in it. I picked up the idea of traveling with a bit of laundry soap from my good friend Iori Mikumo from Yokohama, Japan. Back in Summer of 2002 when Iori and I were sharing a room while performing as The Executives at the Edmonton Street Performers Festival I observed as Iori would hand wash some of the clothes he used daily in the sink of the bathroom and hung things to dry in the evening and work up with clean dry clothes the next morning.
I’ve been working a lot on cruise ships in the past few months and usually there’s a laundromat aboard the ships, but I still like carrying the laundry soap with me because sometimes I don’t need to do a whole load of laundry and it’s just more convenient to wash things by hand and hang them to dry in my shower. Especially with my performance shirts which I usually dry clean, the ability to give them a more delicate treatment than the onboard ship washing machines might provide is comforting because I know I’m not going to destroy one of my custom made shirts by sending it out to be cleaned.
The other nice bonus about having a bag of laundry soap is that I’ll often put it at the bottom of the closet with all of the clothes hung above and undo the ziplock seal to let the smell of the soap act as a sort of clothes closet air freshener…
Not rocket science, but it certainly is nice to be able to put on a clean shirt before your show.
