"Must have's" for vandwelling

[Roadtripp]

Great thread....I’m only 7 months late to the party this time. 
 I brought 3 of everything and bent the frame and broke the springs of my trailer. It weighed the rated maximum weight. That was a big lesson so I’m paring down more carefully. I drive real careful and kinda slow and made it 30,000 miles heavy until I didn’t see a real deep hole and it was too late. 
 It’s hard to get paper maps ahead of time when you don’t know where you’re going. I just want to follow the sun so I go that way. I call it “blue holing”. But I do pick up as many paper maps as I can when I get to a area I’m checking out. I’d say the road atlas for the States you’re visiting is worth having. I have Oregon and Washington so far. 
 Oh, here’s what I’ve been considering: Lots of dried food. Maybe I’ll start a thread on dried food. Any ideas? I’m thinking of making a dehydrator for next year, 2020.