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| Is that a travel angel? or just really good insurance? |
The "E[...] Everywhere" claimed by the blog title may be a tad oversold, but in the last four years I've been to Greece four times, Cyprus twice; and back here in the States, bounced repeatedly from Austin to Atlanta (with long spindowns in Birmingham), then Austin to Denver/Boulder. Add February's sortie to New Mexico and it feels like my personal odometer might need a seventh digit before the decade is over.
So how did I not know about travel insurance? Oh, I'd seen it pop up on my flight options, but thought my car insurance or credit card warranties would do just fine, thank you. I'm already paying for those, so what the hey... why would I need more coverage?
And. When I get do get sick (as a post-fifterian is wont to do), I've been in this body long enough to have developed a pretty reliable toolkit for its maintenance and repair. But I've just discovered that travel insurance goes a few clicks beyond medical support. As I read down through the coverages, I wondered if some frisky daimon hadn't used that list as an inverted template for my last journey. Beginning with my bag detained by TSA (knocking a hole in my budget even before I arrived in Athens); racking my knee on the ferry from Corfu - then, about a month into the journey, sortafamily news called for a retreat back to the US (which, as I couldn't afford it, I delayed). It turns out, a cheap policy would have covered all of that. {{facepalm}}
My journeys to the Eastern Med have been more on the order of relocay than vacay, but I gotta tell you, travel insurance is going on the packing list, next to the tea tree oil and earplugs. Iammas.
