I am always learning things from my family it seems, things that I will apply to my own life to make everything that much easier! My older brother, David, most recently taught me the best lesson about traveling that I have ever learned: always buy trip cancellation insurance! He had a huge and lengthy trip planned to Hawaii, and he had to cancel the trip because he got really sick a day before he was supposed to leave! He was wise and purchased some trip cancellation insurance online before booking the trip. If he had not, he would have lost a ton of money, because the cancellation policy dictates that you owe them around fifteen percent of the trip costs for last minute cancellations. But thanks to the valuable trip cancellation insurance policy that he purchased online when thinking ahead, he got his entire trip monies refunded to use for another vacation at a different time, when he was feeling better. You can bet after hearing about that, that I will always have trip cancellation insurance for any vacations I plan on taking in the future!