Keeping Things Cold on the Road

Before we had the current 110v/propane fridges the RV industry gave us the plain old "ice box". We would drop by the local ice house for a block of ice or freeze water in plastic containers and placed then in the top of the box. Food didn't last but a day or so out here where it gets hot (100-115 degrees) and can spoil fast.

I also have had several just ice box trailers.Never had any problem with either two blocks of ice or our homemade ice container that filled the ice compartment.Never had an issue with food lasting 3-5 days using large blocks only.

It get just as hot at 8,000 ft here in Idaho as it does at 4k in the summer.I too was surprised but altitude is not always an escape from heat.Packers/tent campers and rafters have direct sunlight on the cooler itself to battle which isn't an issue in an RV.Tenting we use wet burlap over the cooler and in the creek if possible.

Lot's of people like sheepherders/loggers and people that stay out past the life expectancy of ice in a cooler use something like a small culvert with a shelf and top pounded down into the creek in the shade as a cooler.

We can argue 'til the sun goes down about rv frigs on or off but the bottom line is that was not the question the opp asked!!!!!!

You choose to run it on..Great..Not a problem for me whatever you do but I like others choose not to do so,,Should not be a problem to you either...Right?

So in ending this..Shouldn't we just answer what a poster ask and not always go off track with guess's/theories and percentages or the forum popular ideas that do not pertain to the post at all,in other words,people that have traveled 8 hours withou the frig running should chime in with there experiences actually doing what the opp asked not guess's or other things that don't answer the question.