Camping Life, The: Inspiration and Ideas for Endless Adventures

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This can also help keep bad smells out of your freshwater tank and help prevent lime scale build-up in your water heater and the rest of your freshwater system. Having a long enough freshwater hose to make your connection is also important. This can be a big deal if you travel from park to park, since water supply locations vary. We carry both 25’ and 50’ freshwater hoses. Don’t forget spare water hose washers. The ones with little filters help keep your water system cleaner. You want to lighten your load as much as possible when you are going on a camping trip. Bread tags make better clothespins than actual clothespins as they are lighter and take up less storage space. 23. Hanging Storage It’s perfectly safe for kids as it doesn’t contain any harmful chemicals. You could even spritz it on your furry companions. If you are heading for a hike, make sure that a roll of large bin bags is a mainstay in your hiking bag. Of course, first and foremost you need garbage bags so that you leave no trace.

There’s nothing more infuriating than getting your shoes completely wet. To dry them out, remove the insoles and stuff them with some newspaper or a dry shirt. 22. Use Bread Tags to Hand Up Your Clothes Hold the end of the straw with the pliers. To form a seal, carefully melt the end of the plastic straw with your lighter. Now you don’t have to carry an entire tube of ointment. By the way, sealed plastic straws also make great spice holders.Don’t let the branch go to waste when you’re done. What? It’s still a hard no on the awesome DIY tripod? Nevermind. 33. Summer Sledging Instead of bringing kitchen paper or tea towels, bring something that is practically made for the wild - microfiber. It's super absorbent and lightweight. It dries better than tea towels and won't perish easily like kitchen towels. You're welcome! 13. Your Trusty Nighttime Kit If you’re going full time prior to retirement or government-provided insurance, visit with your financial advisor to make sure you have adequate coverage that can travel with you just in case you encounter a catastrophic incident while living on the road. When you’re preparing to go camping, bring a couple of mesh laundry bags—one for your dirty clothes and one for your dishes. After you wash your dishes, put them in a mesh laundry bag and hang them up on a tree. Your dishes will be dry in no time, and no camping meals will be delayed. Less water resistant than others in my test (I wouldn’t use this on anything wetter than a light morning dew)

You need a pair of needle-nose pliers, a bit lighter, a plastic drinking straw, and a tube of generic antibiotic ointment. You probably already have an open tube in your mirror cabinet if you have kids or a big family. You’re looking for parts on your RV that might be more likely to break or while on the road. Some good examples might include an assortment of nuts, bolts, screws, and washers. It’s also good to include something like a large adjustable hose clamp large enough to reattach your sewer hose if it should spring a leak and need to be trimmed. Also consider a couple extra lug nuts that fit both your rig and tow/towed vehicle. Imagine having to change a tire and loosing a lug nut in the process. You can use it to make a soft arm cast and treat blisters as well as patch up holes in your tent. Embrace the wonders of duct tape! The problem with double-wall vacuum-sealed camping mugs is that sometimes they do their job a little too well, keeping coffee at a blistering temperature well after I would have expected it to cool off. So while I didn’t think much of the centimeter-tall rim of the OtterBox Elevation’s lid while running the insulation, weight, and leak tests, it’s what stood out to me most during the field test of the best camping mugs, when taking a tentative first taste to see if my coffee was cool enough to drink yet. The longer rim made it easy to take a slower sip, so that the outside air was cooling the hot coffee before it hit my mouth. Aside from lighting a fire and bringing an insect repellent, here are a few more tips to scare off annoying bugs.

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Cover the tops of toiletry bottles with cling film before putting on the lid to stop leaking in transit Don’t throw away that empty laundry detergent dispenser, it will come in handy on your next camping trip. Fill it up, turn it sideways, and you’ll have an awesome DIY hand washing station. You can even strap a paper towel holder to the top. Too cold to take your muddy boots off in the tent? Wrap a plastic bag round each shoe to make sure the inside of your tent doesn’t get filthy No matter how experienced you are, it’s easy to get lost in the forest. Make a whistle out of an acorn if that happens to you. You should be able to find one just about anywhere in the woods.