STORING PILLOWS IN AN AIRSTREAM INTERSTATE

The Air Forums thread titled "My Bed Solution" does a good job of illustrating how frustrated some owners are with what they perceive as lack of comfort with the Airstream Interstate fold-down beds.  I made a comment in that thread that a good pillow can go a long way toward compensating for a less-than-perfect bed, and I cited the TEMPUR-Symphony pillow as our choice both at home and on the road.

Tempur-Pedic makes a number of specialty pillows using "memory foam".  They do offer a selection of travel pillows, but my husband and I prefer the full-sized Symphony.

Image courtesy of this Tempur-Pedic site.

There's just one issue, though - the Symphony pillows are very large, heavy, and incompressible.  Where to store them in a tiny Interstate motorhome?

Our solution is a bit counterintuitive.

Typically in any motorhome, you would strive to put less heavy objects up high and heavier objects down low, but in this case, there was another consideration - noise from the ass end of the Interstate.  This is a view looking into an under-bed cabinet at the starboard rear wheel well, where a lot of that noise originates.   In this case, we found that noise dampening trumps weight considerations.  And there's nothing like pillows to muffle sound.  Especially when there are tubular sleeping bags stored in conjunction with them.  

Here's the next consumer miracle I discovered - the IKEA Frakta shopping bag is the exact size and shape of the Symphony pillow, and I mean exact.  At a whopping $0.59, you can't go wrong with this purchase.  

If you were storing your pillows overhead, you would not need a storage sack, but it's dirty and dusty down on the floor and the Frakta protects wonderfully.

That silvery gray fabric you see peeking out from under-couch slot above the pillows is the sleeping bag storage solution described in this post.  I have found that both of these storage solutions reduce road noise considerably.  

As usual, this is a noncommercial post presenting personal opinions only.  No retailer has provided any consideration in exchange for being referenced.

That's one of the great mysteries of humanity.