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The Incredible Anti Drool Inflatable Neck Pillow for Travel

A shoestring travel essential

By Kathleen Crislip, About.com

Pillow for Travel - Inflatable Neck Travel Pillow from Walkabout Travel Gear photo

Inflatable Neck Travel Pillow from Walkabout Travel Gear

Travelers need an inflatable neck pillow no matter what -- this ain't just for stodgy suits in biz class. It's handy for sleeping in airports and train stations, which happens to budget travelers. And, of course, it's a comfort device and an anti-embarrassment measure in airplane seats: keeps your head from falling forward and lets you avoid that mega drool thing on your shirtfront that happens while you develop the world's worst neck crick.

Better to drool on the neck pillow.

My fave inflatable neck pillow is a very simple and cheap one from Walkabout Travel Gear -- as they say, everybody's got one -- might as well get a good, solid, cheap one from a very decent company. I've drooled on Walkabout's in many fine airliners and lesser train stations worldwide, and it seems to be holding up fine. It's developing a certain character, in fact...

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