Favorite Accessories

[J_Westy]

So what are some of your favorites that makes your trip better?

Some of ours:

Fiamma Bi-Pot 30. Nice and small for middle-of-the-night relief.

http://www.eurocampers.com/Bi-Pot-30-29-gallon11-liter-Portable-Toilet_p_48.html




Endless Breeze Fan. We run two for hot days, and one otherwise at night for some white noise (one of us snores) and to keep the condensation down. Also works great to move some warm air around when running a electric heater.

http://www.adventurerv.net/fantastic-vent-endless-breeze-fan-p-1456.html




Utensil / Napkin Caddy. Always nice to have those plastic utensils handy.

[rideandfly]

Favorite accessory: Coffee Maker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

When we purchased the CampLight:



We added wood counter-top, TV, and microwave. Also like 110V cookware:



Like this Lasko heater, too:



We like our portable toilet to prevent those middle of the night pee trips to the restroom!

[Paul]

Hi Bill, I just realised this, you have no sink in your camplite? I see that there was one on the old countertop you removed it?

[rideandfly]

Our 2010 CampLight 11 was one of the early CampLite travel trailers off of the LivinLite production line. LivinLite installed a 13,500BTU roof AC and 5 gallon water tank under the sink cabinet with small sink & hand pump. This TT did not have refrigerator, LP gas system, LP heater, and LP stove installed from LivinLite.

My Wife & I decided to remove the sink & 5 gallon tank. We use paper plates, clean cook ware, coffee cups  , and hands with Clorox Wipes. Carry bottled water for coffee!!!  We have two Engle Deep Blue 35 quart high performance ice coolers that don't require much ice. Keep the coolers in the back of the pickup with shell to keep animals out of the coolers.

Edit: We love the 60X80 Queen memory foam mattress bed set up 100% of the time, too. It's comfort is equal to the mattress at home! We use an auto sun screen on the entry door to keep the sunlight out. Guilty of sleeping late on some mornings! 

[J_Westy]

Favorite accessory: Coffee Maker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Excellent call! Gotta have coffee.

We've been using an REI coffee press with outstanding results. Between my wife and I, we need the 48 oz version 

http://www.rei.com/product/820451/rei-table-top-french-coffee-press-48-fl-oz

[rideandfly]

That's a fine looking coffee maker! 

[PEIslander]

Here's one of my favorites! It's a Bialetti Mukka Cappuccino Maker. They cost about $100 and can be used camping -- or at home like most users would do. The model I have has heavy glass for the upper pot. Water goes in the sealed bottom, coffee in the filter in the middle, and milk in the top chamber. As the water heats in the bottom pressure vessel hot water is pushed up from the bottom through the coffee & filter at great pressure, forcing coffee up into top chamber where a special patented valve combines it & steam with the milk, which automatically becomes frothed in the top. The top chamber is glass, so you can look inside to see when your beverage is foamed and ready to drink.

When camping it works great on my Scripto butane burner (or on the Camplite's stove but I prefer outdoors). In the pic you see a small pot on the stove. I use that to preheat the milk -- in this example I used almond milk but any will do -- preheating the milk results in the finished mukka cappuccino being hotter . I presweetened the milk because you don't want to stir sweetener into your completed mukka cappuccino and mess up the beautiful foam. The process is fun to watch - hence the glass version. Bialetti also make versions with a non-glass upper pot. Drinking a mukka cappuccino when you are out camping adds something special...

[PEIslander]

Another highly recommended accessory is the BAL Leveler. It makes getting the trailer level from side-to-side so easy. My small but mighty Camplite 11FDB has a single axle so I only need one BAL Leveler. If you have tandem axles you'd need two. I use the supplied ratchet wrench to raise & lower but I have seen others use a cordless drill to make even quicker work of the vertical adjustment. As you can see from the design it also functions as a wheel chock...