And I tend to go face, hair, shoulders/arms, chest/stomach, back, armpits, crotch, legs, feet, ass when I shower.
When I first get into the shower in the mornings, I left to water run over my body. Usually it's pretty hot water, and so it warms up my toes and fingers as I make sure that at least I'm all wet before I get soaped up.
Then, I take a small dollop of shampoo - usually no bigger than the space between my life line & love line - and rub it into my hair, starting from the front and working the suds back. With the excess shampoo suds, I normally do a quick scrub under the arms, and then wash the soap off my hands and armpits.
Following that, I left the shampoo "soak" on my hair, and i begin scrubbing with body soap. I think I start with my left shoulder, go down the arm, back around to cross the chest and belly, and then up to the right shoulder and down the arm.
By this point, the left side has already been patially rinsed, so I put down the soap, do some upper body scrubbing, and then proceed to rinse out my shampoo as well as all of the upper body soap. Every few days, I'll do a lower body soaping too; it's just very hard for a tall guy to suds his own legs.
After my shower, I pick up my towel and dry my hair first. I proceed from there down the neck, down the left shoulder and arm, then the right shoulder and arm. From this point, it's generally an exercise in removing water from top to bottom on my body, so that there is no part with drips on it once I'm done.
Doorm, I think the reason no one describes things to this level of detail for normal things is because no one wants to try to emulate the way you wash and dry yourself.