Today, I am talking about six items that every car camper or road tripper should just have
in the car for all of your adventures and so these are the six things that always come
with me.
They're not actual car camping gear necessarily like if you see a car camping gear list these
things will probably not be on it but they are good things to always have in your car.
So let's jump right in to the first item, which is jumper cables, these actually have
never been used, they're a relatively new pair I had one super super old pair that was
like completely rusted so I got this new pair.
Luckily I haven't had to use them yet, but I have had jumper cables in my car like since
I learned to drive that was something that my dad said to always have in your car and
throughout the years.
I am so shocked by how many people I've encountered who needed a jump and didn't have jumper cables
in their car and then I'm like yeah, of course I have it in my cart, and you can help someone
out or if you happen to be stranded somewhere when you're on a road trip and you finally
see a car or find someone to help you, you have what you need to jump your car and you
know they don't take up a lot of space just keep them in the back, and then you will forget
they're there until you need them.
And then another thing, along with the jumper cables, is take some time to make sure you
know how to use them maybe write yourself a little note card on the steps that you need
to go through because you definitely don't want to use them incorrectly you can damage
your car you can hurt yourself and so make sure that you take the time to actually learn
how to use these so that when the time comes, you are prepared.
The next item that you should have in your car is an extra blanket.
So here I have a pretty big wool blanket and I would recommend a wool or synthetic blanket
for your extra blanket because they insulate when wet, which down does not, so if you do
have a down blanket in your car and it happens to get soaking wet, that's not going to be
very helpful, having a blanket in your car can come in handy if you have to sleep in
your car unexpectedly for some reason, or if you're camping and it just is a lot colder
than you were expecting or colder than your sleeping bag is rated to you have an extra
blanket that you can use to stay warm.
Boom.
The third item on this list is a tarp.
Now this one we actually were just using so it's kind of wet and sandy, this is just a
super cheap run of the mill tarp Nick and I both have one in our car.
It can be used to create shade if you're somewhere where it is just like so hot and you're stranded
or something.
You can use this to create some shade.
You also can use this as a tent footprint and that's what Nick and I use a lot because
most tents don't come with a footprint, which is just the part that you put, like, underneath
the tent, and they're often really expensive.
And so for just car camping where weight and size isn't really a huge factor compared to
like when you're backpacking, we just got one of these as a footprint and we just pinch
the tent on top of this instead of going to buy like an expensive footprint.
It's also really good for laying out gear, when you're packing for like a backpacking
trip you see Nick and I do that a lot in some of my other trip vlogs where we actually get
somewhere and we lay out the tarp and put all our gear on top of it and just get everything
really organized and then we know that we've packed everything in our backpack so that's
another really great use for the tarp.
Moving right along.
Number four is a tool kit, and this one has been like floating around in my car so I think
if I open it, there's gonna be some loose items in here.
Let's see.
Oh yeah, not too bad.
So this is a pretty, And inside it has a hammer a wrench, a screwdriver pliers, basic stuff
that you can use to do basic car maintenance or fix any gear or equipment that you have
with you on your trip.
Why wouldn't you have tools.
That's what Nick says.
Number five is a flashlight, this is a pretty durable heavy duty flashlight.
And then if you hear sounds like it's just really handy to have, you're probably already
bringing a headlamp when you go camping but it's a good idea to have this as a backup
in your car let's say you break your headlamp you run out of batteries, you have this that
you can go to so just put it in the glove compartment and then it will be ready to go
when you need it.
The last item is a med kit.
This is a pretty big med kit, as you can see this is not just band aids or aspirin, this
has stuff to treat more serious injuries, you probably hopefully we'll never need that
but I like to have this stronger med kit in my car for treatment when I am out somewhere
where I cannot get access to medical treatment easily, that's kind of what this one is.
It's pretty decked out, it has a lot of stuff in here either buy or build out a first aid
kit and make sure that your medications don't expire so there's like aspirin and Benadryl
and things like that in here that expires and so you need to kind of be aware of that
and make sure that you're changing these things out, so that your med kit is always up to
date and ready to go.
I'll be honest, when I was doing all my like car traveling and stuff like that I really
didn't have this and it wasn't until I took the wilderness first responder course, that
I really started to like, become aware of the possible scenarios that you can encounter
and just doing what I can to kind of be prepared for that and do the best that I can to treat
things when I am out in the backcountry or out on a hike or out on a dirt road that's
kind of the intention behind the med kit, I feel like one of those, what is the show,
Nick where they like have the presents and they open it.
Name how much this costs.
There you go.
These are the six items that I always leave in my car for car camping and for road trips
they're really good things to have and to know how to use so that you're prepared for
situations that you just might not expect, so if you liked this video make sure to give
it a like, comment below with any questions you have or things that you always bring on
your road trips, I'd love to hear from you and see you in another video.
Have an awesome day and I'll catch you soon.