General Checklist for Essential Gear on Long Term Trip

Think about stuff you cannot buy or is not readily available along the way. Prescription Drugs, sewer, water, electric items for hook up, spare bulbs, wire, tape, silicon, chocks, level, shovel, planks, \===. Make and use a hitch and unhitch check list. Otherwise take sunglasses, a camera, and a credit card. and Have fun ;)

Walmart or the like can solve a lot of sudden problems.

Foul weather clothes. Clothes for working on the RV. A small collection of office supplies - pens, markers, envelopes, some postage, note pads.

Extra phone chargers, list of passwords for accounts and websites, important phone numbers not in your phones.

A credit card or LOC that you could put $10K on in an emergency.

Matt B

roll duck tape.

you wanna watch your list very close, you,ll over pack and be over weight real quick. remember your camping.

Climate is what we expect - weather is what we get.

Be sure to include a medium jacket and some long pants. You hopefully won't need them in the summer, but you never know - and you don't want to try to find a coat at the beach in summer.

First rule, make sure you have all your chargers for all the electronic gear you and your kids will have.
Just about anything else can be bought at thrift stores, or dollar stores. Clothes, pots and pans, etc. Don't worry about tools as you can use my idea, every CG has someone with the correct tool, just ask when you need something.

No matter how good you are, there is always something you will need that you don't have. Household stuff is never an emergency. Tools are needed when they are needed. Fortunately if you are in a busy CG there is somebody nearby who has what you need & is happy to loan a tool along with maybe some advice on the problem.

Fortunately if you are in a busy CG there is somebody nearby who has what you need

Yes me, because I do not like going door to door asking for a pair of pliers to tighten my hose. :D

If you send me a PM I will send you my several page list of `stuff' we consider when RVing. Let me know what format is best for you. It's in MS Access but I can convert it to Word. If none of those work for you send me your snail mail address and I'll print it out and mail it. Put Checklist in the subject so I know what to do.

Make sure you have a decent spare and all of the tools necessary to change it out. A bottle jack and jack stand, lug and torque wrenches, tire repair kit and even a small portable compressor are all must haves. Trailers are notorious for picking up road junk, it is usually the right rear that catches the worst of it.

Having these items isn't much help if you don't know how and have experience using them. Practice changing a tire in your driveway just to confirm that you can do it quickly and safely as the side of the interstate is no place to linger.

:C