Hotel Home OfficePlates and utensils? Check. Bedding and toiletries? Check. Clothes, food and other necessities? Check, check, check. Once the mainstays of an RV trip have been bought, gathered and stored, then you turn to the office supplies.

When I leave on a business trip, I try to remember all the accessories and accoutrements I’ll need — lest I go without something or have to buy a replacement on the road. But what will I need for a three-week RV trip that seeks to truly replicate the office?

Let’s review the stuff…

– Laptop. The powertool of the mobile office. Mine’s good to go, as will be another for the family to work and play from.

– Accessories. I use a ton of them to recreate the home office. Strike that. It’s not really about recreating the home office. It’s about creating a work environment in a hotel, a beach house – or an RV – that I’m comfortable working in, given the conditions. For example, since I cannot just flip on a light at 6am and power up the PC (don’t want to wake the family), my portable USB light illuminates whatever workspace I’ll be calling an office. At home, my ergonomic “wave” keyboard” includes a touchpad mouse. But the same mouse on my HP laptop isn’t quite the same. So I bring my Ativa wireless mouse on the road. Small and compact, it stashes away easily in my mobile workmate.

– Power strips and extension cords. iPods, wireless phones, laptops, printers. Stuff needs power. At home, we have outlets roughly every eight feet along the wall. I don’t think the RV has eight feet of wall. So we’ll need to turn one outlet into several. I have a Targus Travel Power Outlet with Surge Protection that turns one outlet into four. As for writing outdoors, I won’t exactly be Henry David Thoreau writing from Walden Pond. But I’d like to enjoy writing on cool mornings outdoors. If a 20-minute session turns into a few hours, I’ll need power. That’s where a standard 25-foot extension cord will come in.

– Adapters. Have to remember the adapters and transformers — for my BlackBerry, camera, laptop, and the like.

Oh, yeah. And my credit card (and a pre-departure phone call to Citi to let them know they’ll be seeing some activity on the card — especially from gas stations 1,500 miles away). Check mate.