Staying warm in the van

I almost forgot to write about how we (Casper and I) will stay warm. If we have access to electricity with my 100 foot utility cord I can plug in my small box heater. With the Reflectix insulation - top, bottom and sides - and my wool and flannel curtains at the windows we may need the heater only intermittently.

With my Canadian Tire Eliminator power box - rechargeable  - I can plug in my heating pad for Casper to lie on. Knowing him, he won't lie on it. He doesn't like to have blankets over him either. I brought the box he likes to hide in, a long one, that I could slip into one of the unused sleeping bags I won. I could put the heating pad between the underside of the box and the sleeping bag "sleeve". The box sits on top of two small carpets...ones that Casper knows. If I can get him to go inside the box and stay there at night, he can be warm even when we don't have the box heater.

The downside is we need to recharge the power box each day. Without electricity, that's not possible. Once I get a proper plug from Canadian Tire in Canada, I  will be able to use my solar panel to recharge the power box. They were sold to me - $600 for both - as being compatible... but they weren't.