Travel Insurance

Yesterday, I found a travel insurance company, worldnomads, that has me quite excited.

I have been anxiety filled for some time about the prospect of finding insurance for my trip. I do not have a high opinion of insurance providers based on the recent experience I had when my car was stolen...but that is another story all together. What a wonderful scam the insurance carriers have going. I too would love to own a business that the law forces everyone to use and I get to determine when I pay my customers. Anyway...

Worldnomads seems to good to be true. It might actually be, I am still looking into it. Their website is extremely clean and straightforward, which I love. This morning I read through their policy and could not find anything to suggest they were trying to pull the wool over my eyes. They offer seemingly great coverage for a fraction of the cost. I can extend my coverage at anytime while I am traveling and I can make claims online in the event of an accident. They are an all online company, which is the only way I can figure they get away with being so cheap.

I like to think that we are in the communication age. Never before have the people of the planet been able to share information and news at such a fast speed. At the forefront of this age are computers and the internet. It is, therefore, great, for me, to see businesses and companies decide to build their business models upon this fairly new concept. For me, these are the people that get it.

I just hope this is for real and there is not some catch somewhere along the line. For the time being, however, I feel a great weight lifted off my mind.

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I am eagerly anticipating what lies out there for me to find, discover, and experience.

I have wanted to travel for years and now I am finally doing it. The closer I come to venturing out that door the more scared I become. I find that I use my need to be fully prepared as an excuse not to leave.

It is an internal battle between leaving and staying. It is a futile battle because eventually I will leave. I take actions that will prevent me from leaving for a time but then I take other actions that force to have to leave.

I find that I no longer feel comfortable at home. It does not feel right being here. I no longer feel like I belong here. I find that I am easily depressed when I am home. I order to keep from the circle of depression I am trying to concentrate my time and efforts on the work that I need to do prior to leaving. The largest of which is finding medical insurance and, of course, a boat that will take me into the pacific.

I find that I get annoyed by my friends and family when they inquire about my trip. This is an unusual feeling. I feel guilty for having the feeling. I know that my friends and family are just curious, worried and excited for my trip. I know that I should feel happy that there are people that care about me and my travels; I do sometimes. More often then not, however, I have a recurring feeling of annoyance towards them. I feel this is for two reasons: 1) I already feel guilty that I am not traveling yet and their persistence in asking only deepens my guilt. 2) As distant and as closed off as I normally am from my friends and family I believe it will be difficult to leave them all. The more annoyed I become with them and the more distant I become with them the easier it will be to leave. I highly doubt that last statement is true. It will be difficult in any case I imagine, but because number 1 is most assuredly true, number 2 is hard to shake off.

It is funny to look at the mind games we play with ourselves; leading up to my trip, mind games are all I feel I am experiencing right now.