One of the most useful pieces of equipment -- and one which would be welcomed by many camping families today -- was a large, circular dining table, nine feet in diameter, and surmounted by a large Lazy Susan which the diners could rotate to reach any of the many dishes served at each camp meal. Large as it was, this table folded into a tiny package that could be slid into a crevice of the baggage truck. The Lazy Susan can be seen today at the Henry Ford Museum. The signatures of President Harding and other members of the party have been preserved under clear plaques, and the table is overlooked by a huge wall photo mural of the party scene.

The wood and canvas camp chairs (also displayed in the Museum) were of a design known as the modern "sling, or butterfly, type," but with a folding feature allowing them to be stowed in a small space. New-fangled gasoline stoves were taken along, but the preference of all was an old-fashioned wood fire, and so the campers devised a grill made of two iron bars with hooks to hold the cooking pots.

A basic supply of food staples was carried in the kitchen truck and the steaks, ham, bacon, vegetables, and the fresh eggs, milk, and cream favored by the group were bought along the way from farmers. Frequently local people dropped by the camp with gifts of apples or watermelons. An employee regularly returned to town for Ford's special bread. Noonday meals and generous rest periods were held at pleasant wayside areas that were early counterparts of today's roadside table parks. The 1922 Lincoln kitchen truck  used on the safaris is currently on display in the garage at Fair Lane while a White truck that carried tents and equipment, is on display at the Henry Ford Museum. 

Records of the various trips reveal how the campers spent their time. Burroughs frequently would have his tent placed apart from the rest so he could meander, in linen duster and with long white beard flowing, among the local plants and creatures. When the party came upon small industries, Firestone would speculate on how modern methods could improve their production. Ford and Edison, if he wasn't reading in the front seat of the touring car, would walk along a stream edge, conjecturing as to its electricity-producing possibilities. At one mountain lumber camp the group clambered aboard a logging locomotive for a ride with Ford at the throttle.

Ford chopped wood for the fires, around which the party sat after supper . The auto king also displayed his ingenuity as a handyman. At a garage in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, where an unscheduled stop had to be made for repairs on a Packard, the manufacturer fixed a radiator and fan after local mechanics had advised that it couldn't be done. The large sidewalk audience of townspeople was impressed! Edison often gathered rocks, breaking them with a hammer to ponder the possibility of extracting the valuable minerals they contained. Ford and Edison bathed in creeks without hesitancy, but Firestone showed a preference for washing at a hotel whenever one was near enough to permit it.