Driving or Hiking - need toilets and toilet paper?

What to do in a car or traffic jam

Keep a bowl or empty bottle in the car. If you are caught short and will soon reach toilets, but not in time, empty out a water bottle. Use it as a toilet. Empty out - it still looks like a water bottle, but remove the label. Wash it out later or with a second bottle of water.

How to Hide - Undressing Discreetly Behind Barriers

When hiking, you might wish to go behind a bush. But you risk falling over tree roots, into holes. Or attracting insects, even animals. 

Once in the undergrowth, removing your underwear is another challenge. You don't want to wet your clothes from drips, splashes.

How to hide when removing underwear. 

Use an umbrella over yourself when squatting, or over the open door of a vehicle, or over the window, or held by your passenger. 

Use a towel or coat over the car door or window. A closed car door or open car door.

Place a coat or cushion or pillow to block the view into the car through the back or front window. 

Keep in the car and fold up concertina cardboard or cloth car window shade. These are designed to protect the car from over heating in sun. They also, keep off flies. Or as a barrier to rain and snow.

Prevention Rather Than Cure

Remember, it might be unhygienic or illegal or unpopular to urinate within a city or near buildings. to avoid needing to go, wait to eat food and drink liquids until you are near a toilet.

A saying attributed to various people, is:

Go when you can, not when you must.

This means using the toilet before leaving a restaurant even if you don't feel the urge.

Wet Wipes - DIY

You can make emergency wet wipes and hand cleaners by putting the contents of a box of tissues or face flannels in a sealable plastic box and adding enough water to wet the fabric. If it dries out, you can add more drinking water.

Useful Websites on improvising toilets when hiking

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Shit-Woods-Environmentally-Approach/dp/1984857134

https://www.hipcamp.com/journal/camping/forget-toilet-paper-here-are-5-leaves-you-can-use-in-a-pinch

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