My brother has one of those little tiny backpacking pillows. The last time we were on a trip, he couldn’t find it after everything was set up.
So, he made do the way people used to, by wadding up some clothes and other gear and using that for a pillow.
Not ideal, as you know if you’ve ever tried it.
The next morning, I found the pillow.
It was obscured by the dark, but was lying at the door of the tent, partly covered by the little flap of nylon that covers the zipper of the tent.
Yeah, it’s THAT small when packed away.
I think the same gremlin who steals my socks from the dryer also makes items invisible in my backpack….
I was on an extended vacation and camping in national park campgrounds. At the time I had a prescribed orthopedic pillow and had to lug that behemoth everywhere. We had one night when it decided to POUR so bad it was impossible and town was 15 miles away. We and the couple we were camping with decided on a night in civilization and a real shower and got a motel room. We lost the pillow sometime the next day. We looked for it. We went through the trash dumpster at the motel. We did everything. Those things took time to ‘break in’ so a new one off the shelf wasn’t going to work and that meant I was HOSED. I don’t remember the last four days the pain was so bad. Your pillow is your best buddy!!!!! Maybe hook your ittybitty wadded up hiking pillow to a big keychain fob? Making it recognizable?
that’s the kind of silly thing my parents would probably keep doing for sure…
Miracles of camping technology – if you can figure out how to use it the way they show in the demo videos, it’s a miracle.
The wife keeps trying to get me to go camping again.. No kids, but we did enough volunteering to know the wrong end of a scout camp. This old back just can’t deal with anything less than an inflatable mattress, forget the pillow tho..
I went camping a couple of years ago with a no pillow and a totally inadequate yoga pad for a mattress. That sound in the middle of the night was me pounding down bumps and stobs with a rock.
To quote from Heathers: Such a pillow case.
Ah, the joys of a hammock tent.