Aug 12 2008
Travel with your own Pillow
I always travel with my own pillow. I am very pillow-oriented and can’t sleep properly with a substandard pillow. Hotels often offer these mile-high uncomfortable ones…or too-thin nonexistant limp things that you can only pile up into the semblance of a pillow if they give you enough of them.
My own travel pillow is a small, portable, but perfectly proportioned affair. I have two different kinds, actually, depending on how much extra room I have in my luggage. One is an actual real standard-sized pillow with my luxurious, silky Pima Cotton pillowcase that I bought at Goodwill. It goes on road trips, bus/train trips, when staying at a friend’s house overnight and whenever I am not traveling light.
The other thing I use is a little neck pillow that has several comfortable positions for various uses - one for propping up my head to read, or for sleeping lying down, or for trying to sleep on planes. I found this at Goodwill too (I am an unashamed scavenger).
Since all pillows attributes are a personal choice, you will just need to try different travel pillows to find the right one for you. You don’t even have to feel embarrassed at your pickiness, since as this blog shares, you are not alone in your pillow woes.
I like to travel with a lavendar linen spray too. I use it at home and have a small size for traveling. Dan even likes the spray and will obligingly sit up to let me scent his pillow before lights-out. It does help us sleep better and through the night, no matter the condition of the available pillow.
Stumble it!
I am actually out of lavender spray at this point - oh no! I have some chamomile spray and chocolate spray, but they are not as wonderful as straight up lavendar for night-night. I will need to order some more from Eclectic Lady.
Does anyone else use linen sprays, or travel with their own pillows?
Good question! I actually don’t like the smell of lavender, despite its purported soporific effects. And, while I used to have this little smushy pillow for travel, these days the airlines are so stingy with what you can carry on, I need to use that space for other things (like kids’ DVDs). Too bad, too - did you hear about how Jet Blue is now making passengers BUY the once-free pillow-and-blanket set?! Crazy.
yeah, i hear you about the stingy airlines. Grumble, grumble. No water, no coffee, no pillow, squeezed in like sardines, germs everywhere…it’s enough to drive one to drink when flying.
Hmmm. Maybe that’s my new plan…. heeheehee