Camping Tips For a Converted Trailer
Motion Light at top camper doorSome ideas for those that have a converted trailer. We installed a motion powered light and mount on the outside of the camper to the left of the door. The motion powered light is helpful when you have been out and about exploring or going to the bathhouse at night when it is dark. There are no street lights at a campground so having a motion powered light is definitely beneficial. The light allows you to see well enough to unlock your door on the camper. As we get older, the eyes just don't seem to work as well as they used to! :) One thing, don't forget to take it down when you are traveling. Our light gets mounted on the trailer when we get to our site. It is battery powered so we have to disable it by taking out a battery when it is not in the mount. We have lost our light on the road when we forgot to remove it from the mount! Just another helpful camping tip!
Site Showing Tarp and blue PVCAnother camping tip we incorporated is using a tarp as an awning. Our old converted trailer does not have an awning. We put hooks at the roof edge of the trailer so we could connect a tarp. We have poles and stakes to pull out the tarp so it gives us cover during a rainy day and shade during a sunny day.
We found that if it was a little windy, the poles couldn't hold the tarp up very well even with the leads secured in the ground. We decided to get some PVC pipes (as shown in blue in the picture). Taper the end to a sharp point so you can hammer them securely into the ground, then slip the poles into the PVC pipes. These PVC pipes hold the poles very nicely and makes our awning more secure. The PVC allows us to eliminate the need for leads to hold up the tarp. This keeps our campsite safer so we aren't tripping on the lead ropes. We also string lights around the top of the awning so we have some lights in the evening.