Thanks Wes, its timely as I spent 5 hours driving through Arizona this
afternoon. 112 in phoenix, no AC. I was using a regular spray bottle,
it really worked but a finer spray seems nice. But I needed to use it
almost constantly.

ANyone else have tricks for staying cool? Evaporative cooling works
great here, I'm wondering if there's some way to rig it up to to blow
out the vents. Maybe you could put the outdoor fan mister - http://tinyurl.com/6b4ox7
  - inside the ducting? Theres some pretty nice looking units at
swampy.net but they're expensive.

cheers-
Jeff

On Jun 14, 2008, at 2:39 PM, pickle vanagon wrote:

> 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.
>