"Where do you shower and shit?!"

People are literally obsessed with this question apparently. Next to "why did you move into a van" - which I will get round to answering fully, one day - the question of where I do my personal business is easily the next most frequently asked question, with a heavy hint of morbid intrique and stifled disgust. Bizarrely. So I'll keep it short and sweet. 

Here:

Yep, The Poop Deck. I have a composting loo, which aside from being very eco-friendly, is incredibly simple and efficient. It doubles up as a food scraps bin, and means I can responsibly empty it virtually anywhere really - I'm not restricted to campsites or emptying down a conventional loo. It's very cheap and hygienic to use and maintain using nothing more than coco-fibre and sawdust, and for those of you unfamiliar with composting toilets, no, it doesn't smell - or certainly not in the unpleasant sense anyway. There's a really good book on the subject called The Humanure Handbook, which is well worth a flick through.

As for showering, that's on the deck too - I have hot water straight from my LPG water heater, from the tanks via an on-demand pump.

Of course, I don't turn down the opportunity to use regular showers and toilets where available, especially when staying with friends and family etc, but as far as off-grid solutions to lifes basic necessities go, this setup works wonderfully for me.

Next question?