Things forgotten during pack up

We don't trust our memory anymore and I have devised a checklist which we religously follow each time we pack up.....it's a godsend knowing that we have everything covered.

Wow...and I thought I was bad forgetting to pack the can opener. I can breath a sigh of relief now.

Seriously...safety chains, electrical plug and raising jockey wheels seem to be the all time favourites.

Fab.

Yep, easy enough to do especially as the years add up....I make a habit of walking around the van before moving off starting with the drawbar area, checking levelling jacks, roof vents, windows, hoses and power leads.....so far so good.

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As Bunny said ... have a check list. Its a mongrel to get outback and find you've left the leads for your camera's battery changing at home, or worse, your heart pills!
Capt.

Hi all

I once left on a 3 week 4Wd trip and forgot my inflatable mattress and yes I had a check list.

cheers

Only 5% of trailer boat owners have never put their boat in the water without the bungs in. Funny though 5% of trailer boat owners have very long noses.

We've only been travelling for 7 weeks and already we have forgotten to put the bungs in the boat once, accidentally left the brake cable from the van attached to the car and nearly driven off, and only today, somehow I forgot to lock a window in the van and someone overtaking alerted me to the fact that the window was open....all this, and I'm not even a grey nomad!!!

We forgot the Aeroguard this weekend Laurie - not usually a problem really but this weekend in victorian desserts there was large amounts of water lying around and it was 30+ , and mosies abounded so we drove 70km to nearset service station in Pinnaroo SA just to get some - $10.95 a can , what a ripoff but then there was $40 in fuel as well.

We had to drive through fruit fly inspection zone as service station was 4km past it, and we worked out a plan to drop off my wife at checkpoint with plastic bag containing our fruit , and I would go into the foriegn land for 10 minutes , get Aeroguard and head back to Vic land.

However it was closed and all was good - but we still needed to light a fight for extra Mossie protection.

When we bought our current van a couple years ago we did a 300km round trip as a shakedown to see all was ok with the van as well as to note things we had forgotten to pack

Well, there was not a terribly long list of things including Sat dish tripod but at the top of the list was a pad & pen to make a list with! Had to borrow them from a fellow camper.

How embarrassment!