Travel Insurance or Travel Assistance? (Or Both?)

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We’ve all seen the little check box when you buy a ticket asking if you want to add travel insurance to your trip cost. Plus, you may have been offered additional “travel assistance” in the form of a membership, many of which include emergency medical repatriation. So what’s the difference between travel insurance and travel […]


Romantic RV Getaways

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Whether you’re getting away for a weekend, a week, or a few months, here are a few ideas for some romantic RV getaways you’ll not soon forget. Please be sure to check online for any closures or restrictions—and reservations are always a good idea! Catalina Island, California Santa Catalina Island, just 22 miles southwest of Los Angeles, […]


Cabo Wild: Adventure on the Baja Peninsula

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Baja California is a land of extremes, where the striking desert terrain runs alongside the crashing Pacific Ocean on one side, and the warm, deep-blue waters of the Sea of Cortez on the other. The two bodies of water actually merge at Baja’s southernmost point in the area known as Los Cabos, home of the […]


Amazing Arizona

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Roughly rectangular and sharing one of the famed “Four Corners” with Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, Arizona is the heart of the Great Southwest and home to one of America’s biggest treasures, the Grand Canyon. Its varied geography lends itself to some pretty extreme contrasts: in fact, you can tan by the pool in the […]


10 Reasons Smart Travelers Pack Medical Evacuation Memberships

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Richard Branson and his wife were in San Felipe, Mexico, on holiday when an auto accident left him with a fractured femur and kneecap. The Red Cross originally contacted his insurer, Blue Cross, for approval of ambulance transport to Calexico and a flight from their back to his home hospital in Redwood City. However, the […]


On The Road: Favorite Travel Tips

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Everyone has their own favorite travel tips they swear by–and with COVID-19 in the picture, we have so many more to add. We asked a few fellow travelers for their favorites, along with a few top tips for traveling in the “new normal.” Start with the travel reviews. Believe it or not, there are still […]