Its that time of year again, My husband and I have planned a 20 day camping trip this summer. This trip will be 1 of 3 while the kids are on vacation. This will be the second season that we have our fifth wheel, and since we were pretty much miserable because of the heat last year we decided to go ahead and put a third air conditioning unit in the back bedroom. I'm pretty confident that this will be one if the best purchases we have made in a long time.
As usual the preparation for a 20 day long camping trip has put a lot of stress on me and the anxiety that will get everything done that I need to is rising at a brisk pace. I have been working and planning and packing for about a week and there are just some things that can't be packed until the day before or the day of. I will be doing all my grocery shopping the day before and taking it to the trailer to leave in the fridge. My husband has also been working like everyday so I'm hoping he has time to go get the camper and plug it in at my in-laws. We have about a 6 hour drive to the OBX and he wants to get an early start even though he has night work the day before. In addition to the new camper we purchased last year this year we bought a brand new dualie dodge 3500 that I'm not to keen on having to drive for the first time with a trailer attached to it.
This being our like 10th camping season I feel pretty confident on the system I've put in place for packing, I have a list for just about everything, Food list, grocery list, clothes and outfit list, toy list and then I have a check off list for when it gets packed in the trailer. This way both I and Paul know if its there or not. If it's not on the list and I think about it I have a small binder with all of my lists in it that I pretty much take everywhere I go that I can jot little things down in as they pop in my head. I can't tell you how many times in the beginning that I've forgotten something and we've had to stop on the way or buy it during the trip. One year I forgot Pauls pillows and he had to use one of mine. Now we have a lot of things that we just keep in the trailer so it's less to pack for trips.
In addition to the new A/C unit we just bought folding bikes to keep in the camper instead of hauling our big ones back and forth plus they take up a lot less room. We also bought a USB charger for the car for the kids tablets and such to keep them bust throughout the ride down. We bought new wheel chocks for the trailer and for Christmas my in-laws got Paul and I reclining chairs and a new rug for outside. Its amazing to me how much money we spend on new things for the trailer, and seems like the more space we have the more shit we acquire. We bought a new bunny cage for the camper because the one we have at home is to big and were looking into getting a small washer to wash a couple small loads to stay on top of the dirty clothes. This is just what goes in the camper I couldn't even tell you all the crap my husband has bought for the outside.
Hopefully this camping trip will be pretty relaxing, the last long camping trip we did was a hot mess. Between the A/C not working and me falling and Paul getting sick I was ready to go home early. Ok everyone wish me luck getting everything done that I need to get done!
