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The 40 Essential Items to 24 Days on the Road with Your Kids
ie: The Packing List
9 days from right now, I'll be taking off with four kids (ages 19, 10, 7, and 3, and picking up an 18 year old along the way) on a grand adventure of a road trip. We'll be visiting 15 states in 21 days and camping in our tent AND in our van! See the pics below for our setup. So, here's the conundrum: I have to be able to fit everything from the trunk in the front two seats for sleeping when we aren't tenting it. Here, I'll show you....
This is the layout of the van. See the trunk space? See the front seat space? Well, the whole list of stuff, minus the air mattress, sleeping bags and pillows need to go from the back.......................
to in between the front seat and the dash. This includes Annika's car seat. So I'm posting my list to make sure I didn't forget anything, or maybe even skinny it down! We've done it for two years running. Next year, we'll be flying to Alaska and Hawaii, so I'll have a whole NEW set of problems....HAHA! #camperproblems Please comment and FOLLOW!
- Air Mattress
- Sleeping Bags x4
- Pillows
- Cooler with Ice
- Fresh Food
- Dehydrated Food
- WATER
- 2 pair long pants each
- 3 pair shorts each
- 5 pair underwear each
- 5 t-shirts each
- 1 sweatshirt/jacket each
- 1 pair tennis shoes each
- 1 pair Sandals each
- 5 pair socks each
- 1 swim suit each
- 1 towel each
- 2 pair jammies each
- deodorant
- shampoo
- conditioner
- body wash
- toothbrushes
- toothpaste
- face wash
- moisturizer
- Sunscreen
- Bug spray
- Benadryl/Motrin/tylenol/valium
- money
- MOVIES
- BOOKS
- Emergency Kit
- Atlas
- Computer/Charger
- Cell phones/charger
- Tent
- Tarp
- Stove
- Baby Back Pack
Car Camping:
Tent Camping:
I'm so jealous- I love this, I wanna go! :) (on another note- are you opposed to a soft storage topper? I see you have a luggage rack. Amazon has some under $40. from what I hear it doesn't effect gas mileage like the hard shell kind...and you can use a padlock.
ReplyDeleteYou should come! About the car top carrier...yes, we thought about it. Part of the reason we'll camp in the front seat is in case of weather. We don't want to drag the stuff through the rain and the mud every other night. This keeps everything inside (we shut the sun roof with the string sticking through), in fact, we don't even have to get our of the van to set it up. If we do the southwest again, I'll probably utilize one! Great idea! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou should come! About the car top carrier...yes, we thought about it. Part of the reason we'll camp in the front seat is in case of weather. We don't want to drag the stuff through the rain and the mud every other night. This keeps everything inside (we shut the sun roof with the string sticking through), in fact, we don't even have to get our of the van to set it up. If we do the southwest again, I'll probably utilize one! Great idea! Thanks!
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