Hi Cathy and Greg From our experience of corrugated travelling we haved learned that anything that can move sideways, up or down, WILL. During its movement, if it comes into contact with another object that is breakable, it WILL break. LOL. At best, if items can touch, expect them to finish with rub marks that make them look like they are 20 years old, not 3 months. Take a look around your van and picture every item as a movable item, and when it moves, what will it come into contact with. We used a lot of non slip matting and foam. Even your knives and forks will rattle against each other and leave marks in your cutlery drawer divider, or fill it with a staining silver dust and mark all the cutlery. We have recently learned to wrap our cutlery in some non slip matting to prevent one touching another. Not a big exercise when you only carry a few of each item. Initially when we start a corrugated road, we stop after a few klms to check the inside of the van. This will give you an early indication of any issues. ie, drawers opening, cupboard doors not latched properly etc. It is much better to discover these things after only a few klms than a few 100 klms. In your pantry things will gain a life of their own. Jars will unscrew themselves and bottoms of items will wear thin. We once had the lid from a jar of coffee unscrew itself and spill the contents throughout the cupboard. A bit of a mess to try and clean up, particularly when you think you have got it all and then put a damp sponge to it to finished. We now either wrap tape around all the lids, or an easier option is the wrap a rubber band around the jar (length ways from top to bottom). If you've got a few rubber bands, put two on crossing them in 90 degree angles at the top. The tension of the rubber stops the lids from turning. Watch those tetra paks (particularly the long life milk). Constant up and down motion of those on a hard surface can put a hole in the bottom. This applies for the same tetra type paks in the fridge. Perhaps place them on something soft. You can never carry too much foam. Lucky it is light weight We cut some pool noodles up and place these in any spaces in the fridge. This has stopped most things from moving around too much on the shelves. Of course the rubber band method applies in the fridge as well for screw top lids. For all our small jars that can break, we have them all grouped quite tightly together in a plastic container. (Just a low sided rectangular one does us). Something that will also fit in the fridge without too much movement. That way, if the garlic glass jar, or chutney jar decides to break, the mess is contained to the container and not the entire fridge. Most of these methods have been born for us, out of a messy incident of some sort, that we can fortunately laugh about now. I'm sure there will be a few more, but as each one happens, we learn something new. Oh, and don't forget your car fridge. I once had some bottles of Ginger Beer in the car fridge and Ann nicely packed some of her beer in between to try to keep it all nice and tight. Well, turns out that a serrated edged bottle top of a soft drink is a can's natural enemy. During the corrugated travel over the Gibb River Road, the beer cans danced around in a circular motion and ring barked themselves against the soft drink bottle top lids. Ann was not happy that she lost about 3 cans of beer in that short journey ! Beer makes a stinky mess to clean up in the bottom of a fridge too. Yuck. Don't know how people can drink that stuff. There are a few different suggestions from people we have met regarding clothes jumping off the rail in the wardrobe and landing on the floor, but with our current van the rail is metal and has individual holes, so we don't seem to have that problem anymore. While we're on the subject of clothes, if you have a washing machine in your van, be very very careful. Ours shrinks our clothes. Happens with every trip. I start out and everything fits fine, but by the time I get home, everything is 2 sizes too small. I have worked out it must be the washing machine's fault. Can't possibly be the 20 bakeries we have visited while we were away !! If anyone can think of some more suggestions, please contribute as we are all going to learn a lot on this trip. I am looking forward to it. See you in June ! Sue