Another Travel Adventure

Have I ever told you about why Frank and I started to buy travel insurance? I'm not sure that I did. Well, let me just say that Frank and I had to have the roof collapse around us before we realized we should have bought it!

Well, not literally, but if we had been going on vacation 1 week earlier it just might have. Now you know us, and you know that I love to travel and Frank loves following me wherever I take him. He was however thrilled when he found out that I had booked us a vacation to New Zealand. We had such a great vacation planned. We were to start off in Christchurch and then head up the coast where we'd cross over Cook Straight to Wellington.

We were supposed to leave a few days after Christmas, but two days before they were hit with a BIG earthquake!!

We didn't know what to do! Of course our first thought was with the people affected. We watched the news and although it wasn't the worst earthquake, it was significant enough to cause a lot of damage. We received an email from our prepaid hotel letting us know that it was damaged badly for guests and we couldn't check in. The tour company also called and cancelled our reservations. Flights in and out of Christchurch were questionable at best.

We didn't have any travel insurance for the trip. We were stuck! All of the money we put down was lost. Eventually we recovered some of the money we spent on airline tickets, but not all of it. Now, any time we book a trip, I purchase trip insurance right away.