Travel Reference
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ting supplemental insurance to cover the rest. If you have prepaid a large portion of your
trip, cancellation insurance is a worthwhile expense.
Finally, if you're driving it's essential that you have liability insurance. Car-rental agen-
cies offer insurance that covers damage to the rental vehicle and separate liability insur-
ance (which covers damage to people and other vehicles).
Worldwide travel insurance is available at
www.lonelyplanet.com/travel_services
. You
can buy, extend and claim online anytime - even if you're already on the road.
YELLOWSTONE IN YOUR CELL PHONE (&
OTHER NEAT GADGETS)
You can use a combination of MP3 players, smart phones and your car stereo to liven up the drive to the parks. If
nothing else, it solves the festering debate over whose music to listen to!
» You can download the free National Park Service (NPS) video podcasts
Yellow-
stone in Depth, Visiting Yellowstone
or
Inside Yellowstone
from iTunes.
» Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks have developed free apps to help vis-
itors plan their visits, available for download at
http://tetonapp.com
.
A search will dig
up other apps, from hiking guides to a list of park toilet facilities.
» Go old school with an audio book. Tim Cahill's
Lost in My Own Backyard
is avail-
able on audio CD or MP3 and is read by the author.
» The company
Tourcaster
(
www.tourcaster.com
)
sells hour-long downloadable au-
dio tours of both Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks for $10.
» For something even snazzier the
Virtual Tour Guide
(
877-SELF TOUR;
www.virtualtourguide.net
; 116 Grizzly Ave, West Yellowstone
) is a rentable GPS unit
with a touch screen that gives you directions to points of interest and offers tips to
spot wildlife. You can rent it at any of Yellowstone's gateway towns and drop it off at
another, but it's not cheap at around $50/90 for one/two days.
» Several webcams offer interesting peeks into the park. Watch Old Faithful erupt on-
line at
www.nps.gov/yell/photosmultimedia/yellowstonelive.htm
(refreshed every 30
seconds) and check out the amazing 360-degree panoramas at
