Travel Insurance and the Instinct for Travel
Posted on Aug 16, 2010 under Travel | No CommentIf you have the instincts of a traveler, the idea of remaining in the same home town or state for your entire life seems unthinkable. The non-travelers among us might argue that there is a comfort and security to be found in staying put; however, especially when younger, it’s difficult to imagine a time when you wouldn’t want to climb into a car or walk onto a jet and, within a few days or a few hours, respectively, find yourself thousands of miles from where you were that morning.
In the United States, even a few hundred miles can take you to dramatically different places; by car, one may go from the beaches of Santa Monica in California to the deserts and Superstition Mountains of Phoenix, Arizona, in just six to eight hours; by plane, that same journey may be completed in about an hour and fifteen minutes. Take the same four hundred miles but move it to Europe, and you’re likely to find yourself in an entirely different country.
The only thing that may take the shine and wonder out of traveling is a health problem overseas. When Jane Goodall planned to spend years studying primates in the jungles of Africa, she had her appendix removed, because if anything did go wrong, she knew she wouldn’t have been able to receive proper help. There’s no need for most of us to go to that extreme when we travel overseas. After all, most of us are within reach of modern medical facilities if our internal organs act up; however, it is a good idea to obtain visitor travel insurance , so that we’re not burdened with the cost of a medical emergency when we finally do go home and settle down.
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