To add to the blog however, I have camped out in many places around the world, the jungles of Belize and Borneo, the Sahara desert and many other places (unfortunately in England we don’t have as many amazing places to camp as you guys do in America!) and I always carry my basic essentials with me. My sleeping bag and shelter obviously (which is generally a basha in most places but occasionally a small one man tent if the climate needs it), but then a small first aid kit, LED headlamp, small knife, firestarter, my canteen (which has a filter in it) and that is it. I do tailor it slightly by adding extra items depending on the environment I will be in too. My eReader is the one concession to modernism!