Seeing how we like to vacation, we started looking for a replacement for our old cooler chest when it finally died. Granted, backing over it with a 5-ton Suburban didn’t help it much, but you get the point.
It had been years since I even thought about getting another cooler, and so after giving our old chest a proper burial with due rights performed, I went looking for a replacement. I was surprised at how much the market had changed and how good, and bad, coolers had gotten. There was a very wide selection to choose from,
but I went with Coleman since that’s all we ever used for our big chests.
I settled on the Coleman 62-Quart Xtreme Wheeled Cooler because it was simply, well, Xtreme. When you use this cooler you can forget about spills and your ice melting on you, calling for drainage and refills. We packed the ice chamber full of ice then added food and drinks. It really did work as advertised because the ice lasted for the 4 days of our weekend getaway. That’s just awesome in my book, because with our old cooler we’d have to ...
