Since a/c repair has been pushed back till next summer for me, and the
weather is really heating up around here, I was looking for some sort of
personal evaporative cooling device.  Previously I had tried the one the
sharper image sells, that you wear around your neck, but it didn't really
seem powerful enough to be that useful.  I just got a misty mate though, and
it seems really great.  Website is mistymate.com  I got one of the clearance
models (the "elite") for $20 and it seems to work really well, especially
with air blowing on you from the windows.  The mist it puts out is really
fine.  I think the functionality of all the models is pretty much the same.

Just thought that others without a/c or those avoiding its use to get better
mpg might be interested.

-Wes

Incidentally, anybody tried one of these on a vanagon?:
http://www.classicaire.com/

Seems like it would be a mpg killer.