While most of us run our fridge on gas when traveling. not wanting to is some thing I understand. We lived on sail boats for 10 years. Our way of not using power for periods of time was to freeze packs of Blue Ice. You can buy them or some thing like them in many sporting goods stores. Load your freezer about half full of them. And when traveling with fridge off, move them to the fridge one at a time as needed, using the fridge as an ice chest. How ever you must keep the door shut as much as you can and never add any thing warm to it.. Or just take the easy way out and use it on propane while traveling..