A cooler with 2 gallons of frozen water. Trash bags. Cleaning supplies, road flares, chargers, 500$ cash, a salty thing and a sweet one, coffee that can brew in the cooler.
The overnight coffee is in a French press, stuffed with orange peels, ginger skin, cinnamon sticks, star anise, chili peppers - I learned this from the Caribbean cooks a while ago.
My knife roll. One chef knife, one serrated knife, one paring knife, one boning knife, a twelve inch fish knife, one oyster knife, one utility knife, two slotted spoons, two plating spoons, one puree spoon, two ice tea spoons for delicate saucing, a wine key, a pen flashlight, a bic lighter, probe thermometer, candy thermometer, small plating tweezers, medium offset tweezers, big-ass tweezers, two barbie spats. Small offset metal spatula, a mandolin with the julienne blades, metal chopsticks, some weird-ass japanese beauty product with a mirror people use to shave cucumbers to put on their eyes. I can MacGyver the hell out of this kit.
Almost forgot my knife steel. It’s come in handy in bad situations since it’s not a knife so technically it’s not a weapon.
Band-aids, Neosporin, gauze, a box cutter to take in inventory this morning, black sharpies with lying pink tops so no one tries to steal them. My work knife roll is navy denim with a thick canvas strap that has a million uses as a rope or cover.
A variety of books. Nonfiction and fiction, no hardcovers if you need to go to a campsite and burn it.
Buy some goodwill clothes and don’t waste time washing them, just throw them away when they are dirty. It makes more space for you to bring back cool stuff from traveling.
