The Loadout

On the weekend I managed to sort out all my camping kit. I listed everything in the kit the other day so I won't spell it all out again now, but I'm really starting to look forward to catching up with my mates, doing some fishing and telling some tall stories. Getting everything out and making sure it works is kind of fun but also kind of a pain, setting up a tent just to take it down again is never fun, except when I'm using my instant tent. Unfortunately the instant tent is too big to fit on the back of the bike otherwise I'd be using that for motocamping. At a real stretch I could possibly tie it to the side of the bike somehow, but it'd have to go on the chain side and would probably get chain lube on it (the other side has the exhaust on it).
I keep everything in a plastic tub in the garage so it's easy to find and store at the end of a trip. Looking at it, it all seems larger than I remember and that's not a good thing as now I want to try and buy smaller kit. The main thing that seemed larger than I remembered was the air mattress, it's probably about the size of a self-inflating one that is about 2cm thick but it is heavier. The weight doesn't concern me too much as the bike is doing the hard work, but the size could be smaller. The mattress is awesome though when inflated and as long as it doesn't get a hole in it I'll keep using it. 
I'm definitely not taking the poles for the fly if it's not raining. I've never stayed a the place that we're going to so I don't know if there will be a tree I can tie the fly to or not so I really need to take the poles if I want to use the fly. There is a fly on the tent but I don't think that the tent is really all that waterproof. I did spray it down with scotchgard so it's hopefully better than it was when I bought it. 
I can see that I'm going to have a shopping list of things to buy if I start to make any money from the YouTube endeavour. 

Bomber
already finding ways to spend money I don't have