Ever Wanted To Start A Butterfly Garden?

February 17, 2011

Subscribe What is butterfly gardening? Simply put, butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures to your garden. Delight your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but be sure to create a safe habitat for them. Here’s an important tip: Rethink your plans if you […]

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How To Get More And Better Sleep

February 4, 2011

Subscribe A few days ago someone told me that I should check my email’s time and date settings because the email they received from me said “Tuesday Feb. 1, 2011 2:11 am”. They were sure that something was wrong. I assured them that, yes, something’s out of whack, but it wasn’t my time and date […]

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How Does Travel Insurance Help in Egypt Protests?

February 1, 2011

Subscribe I was writing a blog post on the Egypt Protests and Travel Insurance when Sarah Schlichter from IndependentTraveler.com contacted me yesterday. Sarah wrote her article far better than I could have, so take a look at IndependentTraveler.com article Egypt Protests: Can Travel Insurance Help?. Here’s another tip. Sarah referred to contacting your travel suppliers […]

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Do Prepaid Trip Costs Have To Be Paid Before You Leave On Your Trip?

January 19, 2011

Subscribe here Hi Steve, I’m confused by what constitutes a prepaid non-refundable trip cost. We are renting a villa in Italy (we found you in Travel + Leisure’s 7 Tips for Villa Rentals article) and they require a $1,000 deposit now. It’s fully refundable until less than 30 days before we arrive. If we, as […]

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Here’s Why Cindy Couldn’t Get Written Proof

December 29, 2010

Subscribe We live in Illinois. I am looking for insurance to cover a cruise in May. If my husband’s union goes on strike, he may have to work on the picket line. Can we get coverage for this under the “cancel for work reason” benefit if he has to work on the picket line? Everybody […]

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Tanya Shouldn’t Waste Her Money On Travel Insurance

December 22, 2010

Subscribe Hi there, I am South African but live in the USA. I’m going to S. Africa 12/23/10 and returning on 1/12/11. I just need Baggage travel insurance because I have lots of presents and clothes for Christmas. I don’t want to spend too much money. Can you please quote me and tell me what […]

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Don’t Miss Tonight’s Total Eclipse of the Moon

December 20, 2010

Subscribe Source: SkyandTelescope.com A Sky-High Lunar Eclipse It’s been almost three years since those of us in North America saw a total lunar eclipse. Visibility of December’s lunar eclipse North and Central America see the entire eclipse from start to finish. Europe, Australia, and East Asia can only observe some of it due to the […]

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It’s Too Late For Kathy To Get Travel Insurance

December 14, 2010

Subscribe I think we’re out of luck, but I just want to double check! On Nov 4 my husband and I made the first payment for a $1662 per person trip. He had been seeing a doctor now and again for years because of a slowly deteriorating leg problem. The doctor said that SOME DAY […]

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Ed’s Frequent Flyer Re-deposit Fee Isn’t Covered

December 2, 2010

Subscribe I have no trip costs, hence my $0 trip cost, as I am using frequent flyer miles. Do your plans cover the cost of redepositing miles in a frequent flyer account if miles were used to pay for travel? Thanks for your very informative website, Ed Not if you insure a $0 trip cost. […]

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You Can Get Trip Insurance Past The Deadlines

November 16, 2010

Subscribe I’m going to Europe in October 2011. We booked the Cruise early to take advantage of a special and put down $1000 on a $3000 cruise. I just learned that we needed to call you within 3 weeks of placing that deposit in order to take advantage of any trip insurance to cover the […]

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Don’t Save Money on Travel Insurance This Way

October 27, 2010

Subscribe here There are three of us travelling (husband, wife and adult child), but we want to save money on the insurance. Can I buy insurance for just one of us and since we are a family, will we all be covered? Some friends did this and they saved over $200 on their travel insurance. […]

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How Hard Can It Be To Tell Us Where You Live?

October 15, 2010

Subscribe here Here’s another one of my “vent my spleen” blog posts. The last one I did was on May 16, 2010 (too long ago) called “The Skinny on the Iceland Volcano and Travel Insurance“. Thankfully, nearly everyone we work with is honest, but there are the occasional people who are evasive with their answers. […]

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Travel Insurance Won’t Cover Sarah’s Boat Trip

October 7, 2010

Subscribe here We are taking our boat from Florida to the Bahamas. If the seas are over 6 feet, we’ll be delayed getting to the Bahamas meaning we’ll lose the cost of our prepaid hotel. Can insure against this travel delay? The only portion we would like to insure is the cost of our hotel […]

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Don’t Miss the Naked Eye Comet 103P/Hartley

October 5, 2010

Subscribe here Get Ready for a Naked Eye Comet Source: Astronomy Magazine I was up early this morning at 2 am Central Time looking at the Comet 103P/Hartley. It was a cool 52 degrees and was perfectly clear with no breeze. I’m near Kansas City, so I needed my binoculars to see the comet. In […]

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