My Camping Essentials as a Bookworm

When this gets published I will be on the road to Northern California with my husband, dog, and parents for a camping trip! Which, if you want to follow along, you can follow me on Instagram! I’ll post as much as I can in my stories, but I also won’t have cell service a lot, so we’ll see how that goes 😆 Anyways, because this week is spent camping, I thought I would do a kind of silly post. Today, I’m going to share all the things you need as a bookworm going camping!

BOOKS!

This one is so obvious – of course, you need books – but do you bring any old books or specific types of books? Time for a little bit of an embarrassing confession. When I go on trips I bring 3 types of books:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. The books I’ll actually read
               2. The books that look good in photos
               3. The books that match the theme of my trip

Yeah…it’s usually an excessive amount of books for the few days I’ll be gone/the few times I’ll actually read. You can thank Bookstagram for number 2 & 3. I have a tendency to bring green or outdoorsy looking books when I go camping – think The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings – but I also need to bring books that are pretty against certain backdrops – like on a lake, or with a mountain range behind it. Don’t laugh at me 😆

ALL THE SLEEVES

Ok, so now you have all these books, but you don’t want them getting damaged or dirty. The solution? Book sleeves! I have a small collection going so that every book I’m bringing on my camping trip is protected by a sleeve of its own. There is dirt in nature, friends – dirt & books do not get along. Protect the babies!

A little promo: I am a rep for Enchanted Extras. She makes great quality sleeves that are all amazing sizes (I can fit fairly big books in her Medium AND Small sleeves). If you want to buy anything from her, you can use my code MOLLY15 to save 15%!

Here are two of her sleeves:

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For all those bookstagram photo opportunities! It’s a win-win, really. You’ll get some photos with gorgeous backgrounds and scenery while also NOT falling behind on your photo taking. I mean, you can also just simply take photos of the pretty scenery, but what is a photo without a book in it somewhere?

Here’s me trying to be a photographer the last time I went camping (with an extra dark editing style). Oh, look, two books that match my criteria from above 😉

A BOOKISH MUG

Coffee is a necessity, but it’s not the same if it isn’t in one of your own fandom/bookish mugs. You better believe I brought at least one of my Harry Potter camping mugs from Owlcrate with me. You also better believe that I will be taking photos of it for the exact same reason as above.

What bookish items do you take with you on trips?