{"id":86578,"date":"2016-01-19T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/travel-insurance\/"},"modified":"2016-03-20T01:19:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:19:37","slug":"travel-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/travel-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>lowly but surely, we’re ticking things off of our pre-Camino “to-do” list. Today, I purchased our travel insurance.<\/p>\n

\"World<\/a>As in our last Camino, we purchased the “standard” package from World Nomads<\/a>. What I love about these guys is that they have an exhaustive list of all activities covered under their plans – and that list goes from abseiling (rappelling) to zorbing (rolling around in a giant hamster ball)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not even kidding about the hamster ball.<\/p>\n

Of course, we don’t plan on engaging in either of these – nor, indeed, some of the other things including “elephant riding”, “Expeditions in Antarctica”, and “Running of the bulls”.<\/p>\n

And this is just the “standard” package… can you imagine the activities covered under the “explorer” package?<\/p>\n

The activities we intend to be doing, however, are also covered. Things like “Hiking or tramping”, “Rambling”, and possibly “Walking”.<\/p>\n

(Originally posted to Pilgrims on the Way<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slowly but surely, we’re ticking things off of our pre-Camino “to-do” list. Today, I purchased our travel insurance. As in our last Camino, we purchased the “standard” package from World Nomads. What I love about these guys is that they have an exhaustive list of all activities covered under their plans – and that list goes from abseiling (rappelling) to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-mwq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86139,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/camino-preparations-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":86578,"position":0},"title":"Camino Preparations Update","author":"Thom","date":"25 November 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the rain and the early sunsets have curtailed much of our hiking schedule, little progress has been made in the training arena. 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