Once inside the relative safety of her hotel room, she peeled off the clothes she had been traveling in and threw them in a pile on the floor. Laundry was getting to be a dire problem. If she planned on staying in the same hotel for more than a couple of days, she would just wash her clothes in the bathtub. That wasn't possible this time. She needed to find somewhere else she could sleep for no money. Her purse was too light. Staying in the same hotel room long enough for her clothes to dry on their own wasn't an option.