Pimping out your wagon

This was Willie's first trip to the Blue Mountains

A station wagon easily converts into a sleeping capsule simply by putting down the back seats and rolling out a thin mattress or airbed. There’s heaps of space, my boyfriend is over 6ft and he was fine. You probably want to acquire sleeping bags and a blanket too if you are here in winter, as the temperature does get quite low at night. Other essential camping goods are a pump(if you have an air bed) a gas stove, foldable chairs, a coolbox, large water container, lamp, torch, plates, large pan, cups, chopping board, cutlery and utensils-don’t forget the tin opener and corkscrew! You can pick up a lot of this stuff from charity shops such as Vinnies and the Salvos for dirt cheap, however if you don’t want second hand goods the cheapest place to go is KMART. This place is fantastic for all your camping equipment and the quality has not been bad at all, all of our stuff is still going strong, apart from one of our foldable chairs, but hey it was $4 so I’m not complaining.
All the campervans have curtains over the windows which is pretty essential unless you want woken at the crack of dawn!  So I decided to add a bit of glamour to our Willie Wagon by putting up some red velvet curtains. I was lucky as I worked in a place with sewing machines and fabric readily available, so all I had to do was screw some eye hooks into the plastic interior then hang the curtains on some elastic, allowing them to be gathered when not in use. Since most people travelling are not gonna have access to sewing machines, a good idea would be to stick up those reflecting sun shields , which you can pick up really cheap in stores like Smart Dollar. Though, if you buy from a backpacker the vehicle will probably come with curtains, it may even come with all the camping stuff.
Lastly because we’re all rock n roll n that, we treated Willie Wagon to a dangling shrunken head and a dancing hula girl on the dashboard :)