It’s the little things …

Some of the little things we do to make our nomadic lifestyle easier and our chores more predictable.

It all starts for us with routine and predictability. We (read Ross) finds that routine and predictability is king for our (his) nomadic long term travels. We have routines, systems, patterns, procedures, controls, responsibilities and above all else precious little tolerance for non conformance … and that suit us (again, read Ross). On a serious note routine ensures every thing is onboard and secured. One person cant do everything all the time, and we don’t want to discover 6 hours and 500km down the highway that no-one put the milk away or wound the TV antenna down

Call it OCD or just a PITA but its important to know that everything is packed away, and packed away properly. We want to have to stop on the side of the road to check just because we’ve bounced a few km’s down some random track. Our fridge and pantry for example are packed properly every single time and we don’t have to stop to repack at the start of a rougher track simply because we did a half arse job of the fridge and pantry before we left. It becomes second nature and very reassuring knowing everything is fine

Tips for the caravan toilet
Pantry and cabinet storage
Unhitch or not on a overnight stop

Everyone needs to know what their responsibilities are, and everyone then does a cursory double check of the others jobs. We have some friends who have a novel way to level the playing field. If something goes wrong, or isn’t packed correctly its not the fault of the person who packed it, but the fault of the person who didn’t check it. Thats not for us because Barb cold set Ross up to fail for a laugh, but it worked very well for them.

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Possibly poor follow on from the toilet hatch, but here we anyway. We use empty 1 ltr ice cream and yogurt containers in the pantry to store breakables such as bottles and jars etc to keep them upright, stationary and stop them banging into each other.

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