travel insuranceMy parents have always bought travel insurance before going overseas anywhere on vacation. They were especially vigilant about buying travel insurance when my sister and I were children. As it turned out my parents were wise to get travel insurance. I vividly recall the time my parents took my sister and I to Benidorm, which is a popular resort on the Costa Blanca in Spain. My grandparents went on that trip and so did my aunt, uncle and three cousins Amanda, Alison and Joanne. On the first day there I raced my cousin Joanne up the slippery marble steps by the hotel pool. I slipped and smashed both of my incisors, which had just grown in. My parents had to take me to a dentist in Benidorm and if they had not had travel insurance then this visit could have taken a serious dent out of the spending money they had taken with them for the vacation.  That was not the only accident that happened while we were on vacation. My mother once passed out in an elevator due to dehydration and she smashed her face up.  Experience has taught me that accidents have a habit of happening on vacations. That is why I will never go overseas without travel insurance.