when I was little and we drove from California to Alabama to visit grandma we drove at night until we got through Texas, no car A/C.
When we moved from Wa. to Ca. I was 19. We had a little Studabaker Lark. 2 kids, 1 cat and a dog. We stopped at a little town in Ca. to get the kids Snow Cones to cool off some. Not thinking about the sugary drizzles all over their faces and the cat shedding. The kids looked like they had grown beards. When we got to Redding it was 115 and we stopped at a motel and begged the manager if we paid a few dollars could we please use a room and then let the kids get in to pool to cool off and clean up. The manage was so kind to let us do that.