Keep The Water Cold
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caprihorse
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A small tip, but very practical, how to keep your water cold in the car, when you are driving in the desert.
Normally the practice is to have in the car a plastic hard box fridge with ice in you trunk. However after few hours the ice is melted and turns into water and at some jumps the water is everywhere, but not in a fridge.
The other trick is to use frozen water bottles in the cooling bag. You always keep few bottles at home in a freezer and just before the trip place the frozen bottles in your bag. Such frozen bottle keep ice until 12 hours. When the ice is melted, you can drink your icy water as the last, before getting fresh water from the shop. The good idea is to put also a cooling bag into the fridge, few hours before the trip.
In LIWA area all the groceries have frozen bottles, so you can get a new ice bottles, to keep your water and food fresh and not hot.
Use always small bottles of water; this avoids your water getting immediately hot in the cockpit and you drink always cold water. Smaller cooling bags are more handy than a single large one. One for water, one for soft drinks, one for sandwiches, etc.
You can keep the bag with water in your car, on the floor behind passenger seat and conveniently reach for a new bottle, whenever you need at some stop.
Normally the practice is to have in the car a plastic hard box fridge with ice in you trunk. However after few hours the ice is melted and turns into water and at some jumps the water is everywhere, but not in a fridge.
The other trick is to use frozen water bottles in the cooling bag. You always keep few bottles at home in a freezer and just before the trip place the frozen bottles in your bag. Such frozen bottle keep ice until 12 hours. When the ice is melted, you can drink your icy water as the last, before getting fresh water from the shop. The good idea is to put also a cooling bag into the fridge, few hours before the trip.
In LIWA area all the groceries have frozen bottles, so you can get a new ice bottles, to keep your water and food fresh and not hot.
Use always small bottles of water; this avoids your water getting immediately hot in the cockpit and you drink always cold water. Smaller cooling bags are more handy than a single large one. One for water, one for soft drinks, one for sandwiches, etc.
You can keep the bag with water in your car, on the floor behind passenger seat and conveniently reach for a new bottle, whenever you need at some stop.
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googloid
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Nice tip Capri... All should remember though that freezing water expands it, so never fill the bottle to the brim (completely to the top) prior to putting it in the freezer; leave some space inside the bottle for the water to expand into:))
