Is Travel Insurance Worth It? Yes. And It's Cheaper Than You Think
My mother and I are sitting at a red light then BAM! A truck hits us from behind. The driver claims he sneezed and lost control of his vehicle 🙄 Aside from some soreness, we are OK, but what if the accident had been a lot more serious?
The thought of hospital bills bankrupting me makes me panic more than broken bones. I’m American, but I don’t live in the U.S. and so I’m not part of the healthcare system. When I’m visiting my family in the States, I buy my travel insurance through World Nomads. With them, I worry less about financial devastation if something bad happens to me in my home country.
So who else is travel insurance great for? On the Postcard Academy ‘travel insurance’ episode, I interview Phil Sylvester from World Nomads on how expats and nomads can use their service. Phil is a former broadcast journalist who now co-hosts the World Nomads podcast with Kim Napier (I make a guest appearance on the World Nomad’s Bangladesh episode!).
Phil Sylvester heads up PR and media communications at World Nomads. The people who work there are globetrotters themselves and they actually want to help fellow travelers who find themselves in sticky, or even dangerous, situations. I wish I’d had them when my iPhone got smashed to bits in Colombia. Photo courtesy of Phil.
Subscribe to the Postcard Academy for free to get a break down of the benefits of travel insurance — and to hear some horror stories of what can go wrong on the road. We get a little graphic in this episode — you’ve been warned.
I’m such a fan of World Nomads that I joined their partner program. If you buy your travel insurance through World Nomads by clicking on one of the links on this page, they’ll give a little monetary bonus to the Postcard Academy. This is a great way to support the show at no additional cost to you.
I love World Nomads, not only because they protect me while I’m traveling, but also because they share my values, which can be summed up by Phil’s favorite travel quote, which is by Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…” Photo courtesy of Phil.