Travel insurance is not just for those off-the-beaten-path destinations or people over 65. Instead, it is essential for anyone who travels. Yet figuring out how to demystify all the different options can be daunting. That is why I went right to the source. Read this Q&A with Christina Tunnah, General Manager of the Americas for World Nomads, a global leader in travel insurance and inspiration.
As a travel writer who travels for a living and fun, it is a bit ironic that I am writing this story but I am embarrassed to admit that I made a serious mistake last month by not purchasing travel insurance. I was in the habit of purchasing insurance with every trip before the pandemic but then I had fallen out of the habit of buying it, thinking that I would not need it. How wrong I was!
It wasn’t swimming in a bat cave, going down the Teribe River on a homemade bamboo raft, or hiking and swimming in a waterfall that caused me to seriously injure my ankle and foot. Nope. It was searching to capture on film the elusive red-tailed white bird at Bird Island on a snorkeling boat, forgetting I was wet from swimming and falling and crashing hard on my foot.
Entering the Bat Cave on Isla Bastimentos in Bocas del Toro islands, Panama