Travel Insurance Providers

 

Because Sometimes A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Ends Very, Very Badly

 

Insurance, ugh. If you’re anything like us, you hate the thought of paying for something you probably won’t need. But it sure is a great feeling to know you’re fully covered when it hits the fan.

Insurance is one of those weird, back-of-the-mind concepts. It’s kinda' like those dinky little parachutes on the ass-end of the shuttle, you know?

See, the astronauts don’t think about them at blast-off when they’re strapped to that giant external fuel tank full of liquid hydrazine and the lab coats set fire to the solid rocket boosters and then run for cover like something reeeally bad is about to happen. They don’t think about them when they’re up there in zero-gravity conducting important astronaut experiments like sucking up free-floating juice blobs through a straw or hucking M&Ms into another astronaut’s mouth across thirty feet of payload bay. And they sure as hell aren’t thinking about them as they’re hurling back through the atmosphere, lit up to ten-thousand degrees and trailing giant chunks of melted-off spacecraft.

But we’ll betcha’ Britney Spears and a donut that the astronauts think about those dinky little parachutes the moment the shuttle’s wheels grease onto the tarmac at 300 miles an hour and their rookie pilot smokes through a set of brakes made by the lowest bidder and, “Oh-my-God- the-end-of-the-runway-sure-is-coming-up-really-FAST!”

Not until that moment have the astronauts given any thought to how glad they are the dealership threw in the drag chute option for the price of the undercoating and how three wee wisps of brightly colored silk and a few spools of twine are all the difference between power-sliding into the Employee of the Month parking space in front of the astronaut building or plowing into some swamp next to Disney World in front of a startled crowd of mommies and daddies and wide-eyed kiddies with the entire shuttle crew shrieking like twelve-year-old girls at a Ricky Martin concert.

A good insurance policy can make all the difference in the world. Think of it as a great big parachute for your ass.

Check out the fine purveyors of travel insurance linked below. We’ve picked the best and thrown out the rest (or some other equally catchy slogan).
 

www.travelguard.com

www.insuremytrip.com

www.travelinsure.com

www.travelex-insurance.com