There is nothing like crashing onto a real sleep surface after a day of driving or your outdoor activities. My limited time to play results in long hard days of often strenuous activities. I personally demand the absolute best sleep surface like the kind that I hit at night and wake up in the same position I crashed in 7 hours earlier. The quality sleep allows me to have a quality day to do it again. I see too many people mope around the campsite till 10:00am because they are still wiped out from the day before. I sleep on a surface worthy of a crash victim with a broken back. Foam/air bladder combo with the right support in the right place. I'd post some links but am currently reduce to a toy commuter iPad thing but you can google " stretcher sleep surfaces" I use a Stryker Pioneer but their are others available in all sorts of widths, lengths and thickness. Air, foam, or a combination are all available. A stretcher is not an ambulance cot. They are called cots. It's not a hospital bed, those are called beds. A stretcher is in between and is used to transport patients within a medical facility. They are a medically engineered sleep surface for people in dire need of quality rest. That would be me after a day of hiking ,biking,driving, swimming, fishing metal detecting or riding the dirt bike. I hit that surface and it's like God has me in his hands. I used to say that the 12v fridge was the best piece of camp gear I owned but now the top spot is the stretcher surface.
