[I'll title this as "best overlanding mods" though what I'm really interested in are "the best things you do can easily to your tailgate, trunk, and rear bumper to improve your camping experience". Adding additional drawers, fridges, etc are fine but not really what I'm after here. A trasharoo would be a good example though (and I do have one of those)]
I recently installed a dual swingout rear bumper. I've got a single drawer with a table that slides out from underneath the drawer, which we routinely use to eat lunch when we're back from a hike. I picked up one of those nifty electric faucet pumps for $10 off Amazon this week so we can get drinking water out of the 5 gallon jugs without having to lift them out to tilt. (I do like @Markuson's 3/4" water spigot idea but I wanted to be able to use all 3... plus for $10 I get the coolness factor of it being electric).
After seeing that my wife suggested we put together a simple kitchen so that we can do a bit more food prep/cleaning/etc when we're not at the trailer. Also the 5 of us will wrestle for use of the trailer bathroom in the morning so having a secondary place to brush teeth or put on/take off contacts is a plus. There's an interesting cutting board/collapsible sink on Amazon that I may pick up (along with a mirror), but then I got to thinking about how to make easy use of the space I have.
Things which easily mount to the swingout get a +1. For instance if I could find a table which would mount behind my jerry can holder and fold down to provide a place to put the aforementioned sink, that would be swell. (Note: This one would almost work, but it's ~27" wide and the jerry can holder is only 21" wide). Or a stove that would fit behind the spare and fold out.
Sub-$100 ideas get a star, because we could all drop $10k to have someone custom-fab a special swing out kitchen but finding the one with an almost perfect fit off Aliexpress for $29 plus shipping deserves a medal.
Pic of my sons chowing down in a parking lot at Niagara Falls.
I recently installed a dual swingout rear bumper. I've got a single drawer with a table that slides out from underneath the drawer, which we routinely use to eat lunch when we're back from a hike. I picked up one of those nifty electric faucet pumps for $10 off Amazon this week so we can get drinking water out of the 5 gallon jugs without having to lift them out to tilt. (I do like @Markuson's 3/4" water spigot idea but I wanted to be able to use all 3... plus for $10 I get the coolness factor of it being electric).
After seeing that my wife suggested we put together a simple kitchen so that we can do a bit more food prep/cleaning/etc when we're not at the trailer. Also the 5 of us will wrestle for use of the trailer bathroom in the morning so having a secondary place to brush teeth or put on/take off contacts is a plus. There's an interesting cutting board/collapsible sink on Amazon that I may pick up (along with a mirror), but then I got to thinking about how to make easy use of the space I have.
Things which easily mount to the swingout get a +1. For instance if I could find a table which would mount behind my jerry can holder and fold down to provide a place to put the aforementioned sink, that would be swell. (Note: This one would almost work, but it's ~27" wide and the jerry can holder is only 21" wide). Or a stove that would fit behind the spare and fold out.
Sub-$100 ideas get a star, because we could all drop $10k to have someone custom-fab a special swing out kitchen but finding the one with an almost perfect fit off Aliexpress for $29 plus shipping deserves a medal.
Pic of my sons chowing down in a parking lot at Niagara Falls.
