Camp comforts ...

We haven't done as many trips as we might have hoped since purchasing our camper trailer in 2017.  (Yep, life gets in the way of our best plans). 

Nick has done some great improvements to the trailer since we bought it and more modifications were done prior to this trip.  As just two of us were traveling, the large box with flip-over bench top (it hadn't weathered well) were removed and the tap gun hose adjusted.  

Our various luggage (Gladstone and other bags, guitar etc) were stowed on the back seat.  Chairs, picnic bag, beverage case, esky and a few other bits were in the back of Elmer Fudd.  (Our Scrabble bag was in the trailer but we didn't play this trip).  

There aren't many photos of the small shelf in action but it's very handy to pull up for a rest stop, open the trailer box door and have everything ready to boil the kettle and/or prep lunch.  We use the single burner dual fuel stove for the kettle - even on day/picnic trips. Our green thermal mugs are smaller than the pottery ones I use at home.  Very recently I spotted a small teapot at an opshop.  I hesitated to buy it cos many spill tea all over the table but I was very pleased with this one. It pours well and holds just enough for two-plus cups, using one teabag.  $2.00 well spent!

I took a couple of pre-cooked meals with us.  We used the camp kitchen facilities at Rolleston and Barcaldine to reheat those, cook pasta and wash up afterward.  We'd inherited a small carry sink with the trailer and it was handy for carting dishes to and from the on-site sinks. We paid for powered sites at each of the caravan parks because there wasn't a lot of difference in cost.  The solar set-up ran the lights and fridge though and they worked fine, even on the unpowered site at Blackall.

The three-burner stove came away with us and we used it on our final night, set up on a folding table cos neither of us felt like traipsing across to use the camp kitchen!

There wasn't much cooking done while we were away.  Breakfasts were simple cereals.  We had a cheese platter on our first night, the pre-cooked meals the next two nights, a pub meal at Winton, one home-cooked dinner with Di and then takeaway by the lake the next night, fruit and custard at Blackall and then a pasta dish for our finale dinner.  (Funny that we made the same pasta dish at home the next night)!

Being on tour, traveling most days, was definitely novel but we liked the quick set-up / pack-up of the camper trailer.  The bedding upgrade worked well, though we definitely appreciated sleeping in a proper bed at Di's and when home again!  We talk about various camper trailer improvements but really, things work pretty well as they are - and hopefully we'll get to go away again soon.