Our pets are the primary reason that we started this lifestyle.
We knew we wanted to travel more, but the thought of leaving our fur babies alone for weeks, sometimes months at a time, made traveling more than once per year pretty unappealing. I’ll never forget the moment CJ suggested living in an RV and traveling the country. It was like everything shifted into place, and suddenly this dream of traveling seemed like it could actually come true without making the sacrifice of leaving our pets behind.
That being said, traveling in an RV with two dogs and a cat is not always easy. One of the biggest challenges we face while boondocking is keeping the pets cool. While one of the benefits of this lifestyle is the abilityto chase weather that is sunny and 75 with a cool breeze, life doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes you end up in the middle of the desert in June and its scorching and 99.
When those times come, here are some relatively low-cost methods we’ve relied on to keep our furry family members (and ourselves as well) safe and cool.