


If you need a little tote for your beer or soft drinks, it's also worth the investment. The exterior of the DayTrip Lunch Box measures in at 10 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 4 1/2 while the interior space is 9 3/4 × 7 3/4 × 2 1/2 so, while not being huge, it makes for a decent size snack pack that keeps your food safe and cold. Over the course of five years or so, how many lunch bags would you throw out, either due to separation at the seams, a de-laminated lining, or an insurmountable amount of mold or mildew? You might not want to send your kindergartner (or even your sixth-grader) off to school with it, but if you're not prone to losing things, and if you take your lunch to work or school (or wherever you regularly go), this bag is a sound investment. Or a six-pack (plus one, if you're thrifty with space). Anyhow, the Daytrip holds a well-balanced meal. I didn't think ahead enough to pack a balanced meal as such, so I didn't show you the contents of my Daytrip for fear of self-embarrassment. And once it's empty, at which point it only weighs all of 1.1 pounds, you can stuff it into a backpack or shoulder bag with relative ease and forget about it. Otherwise, without any ice or ice packs, bottled beverages stayed cold for a few hours and still cool for a while after that, which is not bad at all for a little lunch box.Īnd, as you get on in the day, there are several loops for the little metal buckle so that you can compress it as you remove and consume its contents, which is great for hiking or being on the move. But I would hardly call that a flaw I've tried to keep ice cream in many other coolers, including the Yeti Tundra, and I've never been able to keep it fully frozen. I use them now and it makes all the difference, though you still might not get freezing cold temperatures.Īs an experiment to see how cold the Daytrip would get, and stay, I sent a friend home with a couple of pints of ice cream surrounded with cheap ice packs and by the time they got home from a 30-minute subway ride, they were desperately rushing to their freezer to salvage it. It didn't keep things cold for as long as I'd want it to, and in hindsight, I decided cooler packs would have been a good idea. This particular Daytrip saw everything from mud to blood and beer, with not a stain. The magnetic strip is effortless to open, and seals itself so you don't have to worry about accidentally leaving your food and drinks out to bake.
