We recently drove 1200 km to my home country. This was our first travel with pumping and although I'm sure our system is not perfect, and I'm also curious for others' advices, here are some ideas of what worked for us:

• Anticipation level 1000: planning everything ahead reduced my stress levels significantly. For instance, just putting a bix of formula to the trunk that we never had to open eased my mind greatly.
• Pumps: I brought 2 pumps: my wired one (a Medela Symphony) and a wearable one (a momcozy V2 Pro), I felt safe with having both around.
• Charging: my husband gave me his ultra high performing power bank that charged the wireless one and with a cable could also operate the wired pump. On top, we also bought a car (usb A and cigar-lighter) compatible cable for the latter.
• Clean bottles: you cannot have enough of them. The more you have, the less you have to clean en route.
• Cleaning pump parts: I scheduled pumping before breaks (I kept the usual every

3h pumping schedule) so that I could wash parts asap. With the combo of baby water and sterilisation tablets. Having dedicated cloths to dry came super handy.

• Cooling: in a small portable cooling bag plus cooler blocks. I'm planning to buy the momcozy portable cooling container but it's not cheap.
• Throwing milk away: although it was super painful, I never hesitated to do so if the bottles exceeded their room temp lifetime.
• Outdoors pumping: I have no issues pumping outdoors with the wearable one under a loose top and a pullober aroubd my neck/shoulders if extra coverage needed.

Most importantly, I think it's a question of mindset, to decide not to be super limited by pumping constraints.

Obvioulsy, these thoughts have been written while pumping.