Travel Pillows serve two important purposes: they comfort you on a plane or train or bus, and then you can use them at any hotel, motel, or friend’s crash pad, bringing a little bit of home with you.

• Brookstone has an ergonomically shaped travel pillow that will keep your neck from cramping on that long plane ride to Australia or South America (in midnight blue, $25 at Brookstone.com).

• Restoration Hardware had a luxury pillow in a more traditional square shape for $18.

• TheBedBathStore calls their white, goose down travel pillow the “Toddler,” but I know one adult would be happy to cuddle up with it ($49.99 at BedBathStore), even at home.

If you don’t want to think about toting around a pillow in an airport, which could make you resemble a character out of Peanuts, consider the Concierge inflatable travel pillow ($18, in black, at Macy’s).

From The Click by Merle Ginsberg