Users share personal setups for carrying multiple small vials with cooling on trips lasting up to four weeks. Options include dedicated travel cases placed in checked luggage, insulated bottles or cups with added ice packs or bagged ice, and pen-style cases approved for air travel. People describe layering ice in leak-proof bags inside screw-top insulated mugs and refreshing the ice along the way. The thread shows several workable DIY and purchased approaches that the original poster finds useful.
What this discussion establishesNothing here is advice.
My wife and I travel a lot. We have not traveled since starting the weekly pins. We want a solid vial travel case that uses ice or another cooling method. It should fit at least four small vials. Our trips last up to four weeks on the road.
This is the travel case that I have. My travel is mostly by plane and I place it in my checked luggage.
I like taking pens along on trips. I store a metal thermos in the cooler ahead of time and add a little cold pack right before heading out. For flights I carry a holder made to fit them along with a compliant cold insert.
That looks great. Thank you.
I keep a portable case meant for insulin that includes its own cooling element, though I never rely on it. My preferred choice is an insulated tumbler fitted with a twist-on lid. If a person already owns one, finding a watertight liner is all that remains. A modest amount of ice goes into a resealable plastic pouch. The medication containers for the trip rest inside another pouch placed directly above the ice. Yet one more sealed pouch holding extra ice sits on top. The arrangement keeps things cold for roughly a day and a half. That interval is long enough to refresh the ice supply at a restaurant or lodging spot. After reaching the destination the tumbler is ready for beverages as well. It turns out convenient in both respects.
There are many approaches to handling this. I'm really into that suggestion. Perhaps I'll use the insulated cup sitting around here. It seals tightly so the frozen pack inside works really well.
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