Showers

I've complained about this before, but after almost 3 weeks of hotel/motel living, it's time to complain again. I've seen a lot of fancy showerheads since I last showered at home. Some with massages, some with different kinds of spray, some crusted with lime or rust (yuck!). They invariably have one thing in common -- a hole in the spray due to the pattern of water coming out of the head. This has always bugged me about American showerheads. That's why I have a showerhead which is simply round with holes poked in it, in a pleasing and functional radial pattern.

There are some good things about American hotel/motel showers. Whoever thought up the rounded shower curtain bar is a genius. This thing holds the shower curtain away from the tub at the top, so the curtain tapers down to the tub, and your tummy isn't constantly bumping up against and sticking to the shower curtain.

Another good thing is that the vast majority of these showers actually have more than enough water pressure. And the showerheads are really high on the wall, terrific for someone as tall as I am. I have bad memories of having to do backbends to rinse my hair in a trickle of water.

On a related note, the beds in hotel/motels have gotten a thousand times better in the past 10 years or so. These are tall enough that my legs dangle over the sides, soft enough that I can sleep all night, the sheets stay tucked in (for the most part), lots of pillows, just the right amount of covers, soft sheets, and sometimes, like last night, we get a room with a KING bed and pullout sofa and I sleep like a baby all night.

Next needed improvement -- taller toilets.