BG Report: My 3-day trip to Nara, Japan
I spent three days traveling around Nara Prefecture, Japan. To create my schedule, I used ChatGPT, the AI bot from OpenAI. I told it to create a detailed itinerary, with… [keep reading]
BG Report: Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Driving along the entire Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park was great fun. Definitely nice to see one of America’s few national parks east of the Mississippi River. My blood… [keep reading]
BG Report: Blue Ridge Parkway 3/3: Virginia
An amazing day for travel today on the Blue Ridge Parkway. And a so-so day for blood sugar. First of all, today’s drive was the end of the Blue Ridge… [keep reading]
BG Report: Blue Ridge Parkway 2/3: NC into VA
Woes from last night’s late Burger King dinner spilled over into this morning. When I woke up in the rented house in Sparta, North Carolina, my BG was high, 219.… [keep reading]
BG Report: Blue Ridge Parkway 1/3: North Carolina
I drove the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway – all 469 miles of it – over a roughly four-day span. My drive, with my travel partner, was from south… [keep reading]
BG Report: Walking around southeastern Stockholm
Today was the final full day in Scandinavia. Over three weeks, we’d seen some of the most amazing things on Earth, especially up in the furthest reaches of northern Norway.… [keep reading]
BG Report: Arctic Train to Stockholm
I took the Vy Nattåg “Arctic Train” from Narvik, Norway back down to Stockholm, Sweden. It was my second time on the overnight train, after doing the opposite direction three… [keep reading]
BG Report: Three days in Lapland
When you have to get your rental car from Kirkenes, Norway all the way to Narvik in a couple days, what do you do? Do what I did – plan… [keep reading]
BG Report: Norway-Russia border at Grense Jakobselv
Today was one of the absolute top highlights of this trip, and besides that, a pretty good day of blood sugars. Until the end, anyway. Today we drove along a… [keep reading]
BG Report: All day in Kirkenes, Norway
The good news was that today I had a bunch of cool experiences in and around the far northeastern Norwegian city of Kirkenes, not far from the borders with Finland… [keep reading]
Train to Iga to photograph the Perseid meteor shower
My first trip since the coronavirus happened was in August 2020, to the town of Iga in Mie Prefecture, Japan. My goal: to photograph the Perseid meteor shower. [keep reading]
How I reached Bishanohana, Honshu’s westernmost point
How a trip to Bishanohana, Honshu Island's extreme west point, made my blood sugar perfect... and then not so perfect. Plus a long local train ride along the coast. [keep reading]
The final National Park of the trip – man, it came so suddenly
DAY 83 – Pinnacles National Park is not the most spectacular place we've visited on this road trip but it was a subdued and pleasant end to this big ol' journey. [keep reading]
To lose all sense of time in the thick mists of the sea
DAY 80 – The north California coast may change your life even after a brief drive. But then again, is a "brief" drive through such a wonderland really possible? [keep reading]
Huge improvement in blood sugars under the redwood trees
DAY 78 – The trees were high in Redwood National Park but my blood sugar wasn't. It was just us, those ancient and oversized trees, and BGs in the 60s and 70s! [keep reading]
America’s most beautiful lake closed for snow on a terrible BG day
DAY 76 – Southern Oregon showed me landscape so beautiful that I didn't even mind my BGs being terrible all day. Well maybe I minded a little... [keep reading]