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]
A place in America where ice freezes under hot volcanic rocks
DAY 75 – Hidden away in north California is scorched (and icy) Lava Beds National Monument, an amazing place where my blood sugars were humbled into behaving. [keep reading]
Temperatures and blood sugars going up and down all day
DAY 74 – Only one high blood sugar on a visit to Lassen Volcanic National Park, whose main road was partially closed in June. Melting snow and boiling mud made it all amazing! [keep reading]
To a canyon barely accessible by road
DAY 72 – The corner of Kings Canyon National Park you can see by car is pretty extraordinary, and today my blood sugars were (mostly) behaving as well. [keep reading]
Blood sugar problems in the shadow of Earth’s largest living things
DAY 71 – Stress was making my blood sugar high for days on this road trip. I hoped a visit to Sequoia National Park would relax my soul, and my diabetes. [keep reading]
BG Report: Driving around magical golden fields of California
DAY 70 – Driving through central California is a spectacular adventure. The area is swollen with waving fields of gold-colored grass, gentle hills obscuring the view, and, for contrast, groups of dark green… [keep reading]
Hot, high, and happy at the bottom of Death Valley
DAY 68 – There's a lot to see in Death Valley, and even if you want to spend most of your time in an air-conditioned car, you can do a lot. Here's how we handled one day there. [keep reading]
Nevada’s desert: from alpine trees to the rings of Saturn
DAY 67 – Nevada's Great Basin National Park may be obscure but the night sky and the thick green alpine forests are worth a long drive through the desert to see. [keep reading]
A second emergency room visit, and the road trip hangs in the balance
DAY 62 – Yet again we had to make an emergency trip to a local hospital in Utah, and I fear that the rest of the trip may be in jeopardy. Health trumps adventure. [keep reading]
Among the mystical orange pillars of Bryce Canyon
DAY 61 – Bryce Canyon and its insane orange rock hoodoos are nothing like anything you've ever seen. This is truly a trip into the mystic. [keep reading]
The lower and upper reaches of Zion National Park
DAY 60 – I decided to skip Zion on this road trip because it's so packed with tourists. But I changed my mind and I'm glad I did: hiking in Zion was fantastic and as usual got my blood sugar down to where I wanted. [keep reading]
Blood sugar epiphanies at the edge of the Grand Canyon
DAY 58 – 90% of visitors to the Grand Canyon only see the south rim. We saw both rims, and on the south rim I had a grouchy epiphany about high blood sugar: forget about it. [keep reading]
Drop what you’re doing and go to Petrified Forest National Park now!
DAY 55 – Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert offer some of the strangest and most alien landscapes on the planet. And it's just a simple drive through the desert to see it all. [keep reading]