What's your favorite camping item you bring in your bus?

[tristessa]

Stainless steel french press coffeemaker is #1, followed by a cast iron frying pan for bacon.

Camping *supplies* .. bacon, beer and coffee.

[HelmutofBuffalo]

"jackass with the generator, or the shitbrain with the Times Square light array, or the Bozo with the headbanger sound system. If you need all that crap you might as well stay home. In my view camping is to get AWAY from all that."

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1979 Type I Convertible

[Lil Lulu]

I guess I'm just different than other people. (Really?) I have a competition with myself to discover what NOT to take. On every trip I try to eliminate one more thing from my gear kit. The less I bring, the less I have to keep track of. I do, however, bring my electronic fartcloud generator for the jackass with the generator, or the shitbrain with the Times Square light array, or the Bozo with the headbanger sound system. If you need all that crap you might as well stay home. In my view camping is to get AWAY from all that.
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'65 Beetle "Lil' Lulu"- Ruby Red
1600 stock from '71 bus

'72 Deluxe - Niagara Blue w/pastelwiess Camper Special 2L dual 40 Webers 002

'74 Hightop Weekender "Dixie" 1800 34 Del singles

[sodbuster]

Fishing gear! (Dat me on da left.)

[camit34]

Morning coffee

[HelmutofBuffalo]

[Xevin]

The GINerator

And a Turbo Toilet. It's sturdy and fits perfectly in the walk through. Collapses thin and fits above the head banger. No getting up in the middle of the night opening doors and waking everyone up.

http://www.blackpinesports.com/turbo-toilet-blue
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Keep on Busin'

[roadron]

I never go camping with out my
Klepper folding kayak with sailing rig if water is involved . also I often have a porta potti between the front seats especially if little kids are involved
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73 WESTY SO72-6 with continental bed

[mikedjames]

Cobb cool wall charcoal barbeque / grill. Because it works when Propane bottles are too cold.
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Ancient vehicles and vessels

1974 VW T2 : Devon Eurovette camper with 1641 DP T1 engine, Progressive carb, full flow oil cooler, EDIS crank timed ignition.
Engine 1: 40k miles (rocker shaft clip fell off), Engine 2: 30k miles (rebuild, dropped valve). Engine 3: a JK Preservation Parts "new" engine, aluminium case: 26k miles: new top end.
Gearbox rebuild 2021 by Bears.

1979 Westerly GK24 24 foot racer/cruiser yacht Forethought of Gosport.
1973 wooden Pacer sailing dinghy

[HelmutofBuffalo]

Seriously... I like to travel with a bundle of wood (enough for a campfire) shrink wrapped, to keep dry (like the ones you see for sale outside of convenience stores) tied to my luggage rack. Nice to have if you get somewhere and there is no wood available or it has been raining and everything else is wet. A candle is great for starting fires in most conditions.
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1979 Type I Convertible

[CarlosZ]

Weed, Beer, light, broom and shade.

[jtauxe]

My wife!
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John
"Travelling in a fried-out Kombi, on a hippie trail, head full of zombie..." - Colin Hay and Ron Strykert
http://vw.tauxe.net
1969 Transporter, 1971 Westfalia, 1976, 1977, 1976, 1977, 1971, 1973, 1977 Westfalias,
1979 Champagne Sunroof, 1974 Westfalia Automatic, 1979 Transporter, 1972 Sportsmobile, 1973 Transporter Wild Westerner, 1974 Westfalia parts bus, 1975 Mexican single cab *FOR SALE*, 1978 Irish 4-door double cab RHD

[Sprink1es]

Heh heh, no ghetto music in that bad boy. But she's for music festivals only

I thought the beer and the girls were givens. What you do when you get there is where I keep having new ideas

[HelmutofBuffalo]

[richparker]

^Jenn looks more like a glamper not a camper.

That 86lbs getto blaster seems alittle excessive, unless you're throwing a rave in the forest.
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’71 Westy build
Adventure thread
’65 Deluxe Build
’63 Deluxe Build

[alman72]

Jen never camped a day in her life. look at her poor choice of hiking boots, and she did not bring a real beer, she poorly photo shopped one in. She is still invited tho.

[HelmutofBuffalo]

You know... I really love the Bay Window Forum...The information, technical advice and stories are priceless. However sometimes ya'll just get too technical and miss the obvious.
A repost from the Beers and Bays forum:
Fantasy

Reality

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1979 Type I Convertible

[Sprink1es]

Lights is a very important subject. OEM interior lights are inadequate. There are multiple threads of ideas and different products, but I ran LED ribbons along both sides of my bus on a dimmer switch. Much better even light than just hanging a lantern.

Outside, the best solution I found is to hang rope lighting along the perimeter of my canopy. LED on a 12v connector, directly off my aux battery. More light then you'll ever need outside! Haha

[rusty busty]

[kooper271]