I've signed up with MASA (medical air services) for past trips with my better half because one of MASA's benefits is that they not only take care of the rider, they take care of the rider's companion / fellow rider, and *both* bikes. Think about it, had I needed hospitalization after I high sided on Mormon cricket slime on Nevada's Highway 50 which was more than 150 miles away from our home, Peter would have gone to the hospital with me, leaving one very messed up bike and one ridable bike just sitting out there. MASA's policy would have flown both Peter and me to a hospital near our home *and* retrieved the bikes. Pretty good policy! Worth the money as far as I'm concerned.
The service that takes care of you, your partner/family and your bikes is an annual membership. MASA does have a short trip service offering that will take care of you, but not your bike.
For my summer trip I figured it was time to check out MedJet,
a MASA competitor. As a BMW MOA member I get a discount on MedJet
services. MedJet's services are comparable to MASA's. MedJet's prices
for a single rider are a little cheaper than MASA's and their short trip
service offering will take care of your bike.
Just for grins, I also checked on Air Ambulance Card because the inmates on the ADVRider Forum mentioned the service in the same thread as MASA and MedJet. I scoured the Air Ambulance website and saw no mention of motorcycles so I sent them a message and asked. I received a polite message confirming that they do not offer any services to take care of your motorcycle if you are hospitalized so I crossed them off my list.
I hope that the research and the purchase of a short trip policy with MedJet will be an acceptable sacrifice to the gods of road trip chaos. If not, that's what the policy is for - to give me peace of mind. Four weeks and counting.
[A note on the link to the cricket slime story, 10 years ago when I started this blog, I was hand-coding it and I used frames. To see the entry in its proper context, go to the July 2005 entry after you click here. Someday if I get very ambitious, I'll reimplement the seven years of historical entries in WordPress. (grin)]
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Cecilie's Moto Journal
From the beginning riders' class to the track,
across the US continent, Logan Pass and Canada's Icefield Highway, the
Alaska Canada Highway, into the dirt, through Death Valley, from
Newfoundland to Vancouver (July-August 2010), 2012 solo ride from North Carolina to California on back roads, and beyond. [Entries from 2001 to April 2008 appear in my original journal.]
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