The New and Improved TravelSmart App by Allianz

The latest version of the TravelSmart app by Allianz is now available for iOS and Android phones.

Greetings from Mexico City, where I’m wrapping up my third visit in the last five months to this sprawling capital.

I’m no stranger to big Latin American cities, having lived in Medellin, Colombia for three and a half years, however when it comes to personal safety, complacency can be just as dangerous as lack of awareness.

That’s why I bought an annual travel insurance plan from Allianz this year and have the latest version of their mobile app on my iPhone.

In the last 10 years since I quit my job to travel the world, I’ve experienced pickpockets twice, an armed robbery that resulted in my passport being stolen, and a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in my lungs, likely due to deep vein thrombosis from a long flight).

The pulmonary embolism in 2015 caused the cancellation of a flight to Peru, and I came down with an illness in early 2017, requiring I cancel a flight to Mexico…