{"id":19802,"date":"2026-02-17T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19802"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:28:23","slug":"scrubba-initial-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/scrubba-initial-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrubba: Initial Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T<\/span>he pilgrim routine at the end of the walking day is largely unchanging. Check into your albergue. Take a shower. Wash your clothes \u2013 almost always by hand, but every now and again by machine. Journal if you’ve got ’em. Explore the village\/town\/city neighbourhood. Dinner. Somewhere in there, usually all<\/em> in there, is socialization with other pilgrims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, if there’s one item on that list I sometimes skip, it’s laundry. I carry enough extra socks and underwear that I can get away with washing every other day if I have to. And, for me at least, handwashing rarely results in clean clothes. Cleaner<\/em>, certainly. But not entirely clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever on the lookout for cleaner clothes, I’m testing something called the Scrubba<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scrubba, with handy guidebook for scale<\/mark><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is effectively a large dry bag with a little window and an internal washboard. The whole thing weighs about 150 g, not including any soap you want to bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tested it out for the first time yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation is simple \u2013 depending on how many clothes you’re washing, fill the bag with water up to a certain line, add your clothes and soap, seal the dry bag, and give it a couple of shakes so everything’s wet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then you can literally scrub your clothes inside the bag, giving it a good shake every now and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you’re done with that, pour out the (very dirty) water and add some clean water for a shake and rinse, and you’re done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole thing took me maybe five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hung up my clothes to dry, and this morning I put them on and hiked in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are they clean? Well, they certainly feel cleaner than if I had done my usual handwashing, so that’s already a win. The fact that it only took me five minutes from start to finish, combined with the very appealing idea of not standing in line (or holding up the line) at a cramped hand-washing station, means that the Scrubba is definitely entering my Camino kit for the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it does add one more thing to dry on the line, so I’ll have to remember to pack an extra clip for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only time will tell if it is as sturdy as it appears, and I will give a full review after my Camino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pilgrim routine at the end of the walking day is largely unchanging. Check into your albergue. Take a shower. Wash your clothes \u2013 almost always by hand, but every now and again by machine. Journal if you’ve got ’em. Explore the village\/town\/city neighbourhood. Dinner. Somewhere in there, usually all in there, is socialization with other pilgrims. Honestly, if there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","category-planning","category-via-lemovicensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19808,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802\/revisions\/19808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}