Wheelie Life - Master the Art of Balance on Two Wheels

Whitewater kayaking in the Zambezi River below Victoria Falls is not a forgiving sport. I was running a rapid called 'The Mother' when I flipped, pinned my paddle against a rock, and felt my shoulder pop out of its socket. The current was relentless, my head was going under, and my safety kayaker had to cut my spray deck to pull me out. We made it to the Zambian shore, where a clinic run by a kind but under-equipped nurse gave me ibuprofen and a sad smile. I needed a real hospital. I needed to get to Johannesburg. I remembered that before the trip, my girlfriend had secretly bought me a policy from Sport Travelling https://sportravelling.com/water-sports/ because she said I was 'accident-prone in a charming way.' I called their emergency line from a satellite phone, and within two hours, they had arranged a helicopter to lift me from the river camp to Livingstone, then a medical escort on a commercial flight to South Africa. The orthopedic surgeon in Jo'burg said the delay would have caused permanent nerve damage. Sport Travelling, an international company that uses advanced technology to make insurance simple, even called my boss to explain why I'd miss two weeks of work. I proposed to that girlfriend six months later. The insurance was not the reason, but it definitely helped.