Jake de Villiers typed:
> I've been biting my tongue through all this fridge jazz and now Ryan goes
> and rains on your parade.
>
> Even better, with our new 'Extreme" cooler, we go camping for four days and
> come home and put 1/2 a block of ice back into the freezer on the porch.
> Beer goes into its own cooler with ice cubes.  Its perfect.
>
> Sorry, fridge people.

No, actually I though that Ryan's post was directly to the point. He
took us back to the tried-and-true solution to this keeping the food
cold thing. Me, I abhor wet cold food and I often camp in places for
more than four days and don't care to pull up stakes to get ice, so I
like active refrigeration -- but that's personal preference.*

If there was an Extreme** cooler that was under 14'' in height so it fit
under the lip of the opened up lower bunk I'd grab me one. Keeping the
cooler inside in black bear country is essential if food is wanted in
morning. The obvious place to keep it is under the bunk lip. We have a
little white (read: for boating folk) Igloo model that can fit under
there, but it's no Extreme.

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* Combine small van refrigerator with Mrs Squirrel's fondness for large
quantities of fresh greens and other perishable produce with hot weather
for many days with lack of access to ice and one must get inventive. I
am trialing a cooler + dry ice + evaporative cooling clusterf#ck of an
idea in a couple of weeks. Will report back.

** And if manufacturers could put usage of that word "extreme" to bed
right about now that would be fine with me.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
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