Affiliate Marketing Content: Camping Gadgets

Thinking about affiliate marketing content as an influencer in your space? I created this post to review products I had genuinely used in my personal travels, and although I did not receive a kickback for any of these products, this format could help you build a blog post that quickly routes your followers to your favorite items.

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7 Camping Items We Would Buy Again

The world is reopening. And camping is one of the only ways you can safely "go on vacation" for many people. Last year, we became camping enthusiasts after we finished renovating our 1965 Heckaman Phoenix camper trailer. If you're thinking about buying a camper, here are a few essentials that made us more comfortable on the road, especially if you are considering boondocking.

1 | The Mr. Heater Basecamp Shower System. I had no idea there was a way to have a hot shower without a shower house. But this is it. If you have a pop-up shower tent, a propane tank, and a big water container on wheels, you’re all set. Easy to hook up and easy to use. Disclaimer: we use the shower house when at an actual campground, but when we’re boondocking (like at air shows and Harvest Host sites), this is a true luxury.

2 | A plastic indoor/outdoor rug. You never know what the weather will be like or where you’ll be parked sometimes. We bought one of these big “rugs” and staked it down outside our camper to help keep the dust off our shoes and give us a dry place to land when stepping outside. This was especially helpful when the campground at the air show turned into a mud rally last year, and we were trying to stay as dry and clean as possible.

3 | My husband insists we have to include our solar power system on this list. We’re solar amateurs but we still successfully installed this system on our camper. It’s a 300 watt system that, on a sunny day, produces 14.6 amps per hour or more. It was more than enough to top off our 200AH battery. For reference, our LED camper lights pull .6 amps per hour and wide open our Maxxair fan on the roof pulls 2.8 amps per hour. This system includes the inverter/charger, the MPPT solar charge controller, flexible Renogy solar panels, and the batteries.

4 | The aforementioned Maxxair fan on the roof. It saves us energy and keeps us cool day and night. We haven’t even had to use our swamp cooler. On high it does get a tad noisy inside, but it helps drown out some of the campground bustle when you’re trying to sleep.

5 | An electric tea kettle. Any kind. I recommend one that’s plastic on the outside, not glass. It will be more likely to survive road trips and heavy use. It made coffee in the morning, noodle cups for lunch, and gave us hot water for doing dishes in the evening. That is, if you have access to electricity.

6 | Our super efficient Alpicool refrigerator. I named it the Mary Poppins refrigerator because it seems like it never stops running out of space, and I always marvel at how much I can actually put inside for such a small unit.

7 | And finally… a rechargeable water pump. We filled a five gallon water cooler jug with our favorite water (from home) and put it on our countertop in the camper. This pump makes it easy to get water without pouring and will even stop when your bottle is full.

If you’re thinking about renovating a camper or starting a family camping tradition, I can say from experience these items made our trips way more comfortable. What favorite gadgets do you recommend?