Organizational System for Our Gear

The Revel doesn't have much built-in storage, and we like to stay very organized in a small van, or things get chaotic and unworkable very quickly. In other words, we're 'everything must have its place' people. Here is what we've done to keep ourselves organized -- this is basically how we roll after fine-tuning it for a few months.

We are not adventure sports people (although we admire them!), so we don't have climbing gear, kayaks, etc. Instead, we do 'backroad/offroad touring', usually with our bikes on a rack behind us, and our gear reflects that. This is basically how we make camp every night (scene from breakfast at Joshua Tree in January): zero-gravity chairs for campfires and star-gazing, and a folding table for meals and miscellanea.

We keep the bedding on the bed, and just raise the bed everyday so that we have access to the garage, and the bedding stays clean and tidy. 

All of our gear is organized into tubs. From left to right: 

• Lower left grey tub is for the water resupply, like water hose and filter, gravity pour spout, funnel, water bandit, etc. 
• Upper left grey tub is for pantry and household sundry overflow, like garbage bags, extra paper towels, ziplocs, laundry soap, extra boxed/bagged food.
• Lower blue tub in the middle is power cord, large toolset, jumper cables, emergency equipment, extension cords; 
• Upper blue tub in the middle is footwear: boots, shoes, flip flops; 
• Black tub is firewood, firestarter, kindling, hatchet, gloves, marshmallow forks for smores, and other campfire stuff;
• Lynx Levelers and Dustbuster (it has found a home since this picture was taken);
• Outdoor zero-gravity chairs and outdoor folding table. 

I have not used a single bungee cord — the carpet in the back keeps everything from slipping. And there are labels on everything, which gives us inner peace, dammit.

Looking at the back row of garage:

• On the right we have two grey tubs that serve as our 'clothes closets'; these are his & hers tubs, and they hold about 10 days worth of clothes in an organized fashion.
• Just above them is a tub full of full water jugs for drinking; until we’ve had a chance to sanitize and install a water filter on the line, we are carrying drinking water. This is not sustainable, and we will not keep buying/hauling jugs of water in the near future.
• On the left is the cargo net, which holds all of our exercise equipment for daily exercise: yoga mat, weights, resistance bands, tarp for outside exercise, and small ball.