You may not be ready for this response. A Kershaw axe (port/left side), a small fixed blade knife (starboard/right side), and a folding Esbit stove with fuel pellets in the middle. Back by the taillight cavity, buffered to ensure no contact with wiring, is a 50 foot length of 550 cord. Not something I need every day, just something I try to need as many times as possible each summer.
It's mostly a left-over preference from between my two marriages when I'd leave work any day after Easter and maybe call in "sick", or on vacation, or something, from a small fishing town two states away the next morning.
I also have a tarp and mini-camp gear in a nalgene bottle in the luggage all the time.
Truthfully, I work hard when I work. I'm usually the last out to lock up in the evenings. But give me slack time, no project on the books, and I'm usually gone! I end up a binge rider because that's the way this job works out.
You asked!