After years of international travel, my sleep cocoon is finally complete!
From top to bottom:
- Eagle Creek sleep mask: to keep out pesky cabin lights.
- Bose QC-20 noise-canceling headset: a splurge, and a replacement for my Parrot Zik. The Zik is a great general-purpose headset. But these pack up much smaller, won’t get shoved out of place by my travel pillow, have twice the battery life, and have even better noise suppression.
- Breathe Healthy dust mask. I bought this after an article clued me in to a benefit of filter masks that had never occurred to me before: they humidify the air in notoriously dry airplane cabins, which is (supposedly) one of the causes of jet lag.
- Cabeau Evolution Pillow: The only travel pillow I found that gives adequate support in any position, even if you’re stuck upright in a middle seat. It fastens in front, and it’s essentially a compressible memory foam neck brace.
- Eagle Creek Cat Nap Blanket (not pictured): never trust an airline to provide an adequate blanket. This one has a super-power: foot pockets, to keep it from sliding off your feet while wearing it sitting down. And it packs up into its own pocket.
This isn’t even my final form!
But seriously though, great tips. I think I’ll have a look at that dust mask.