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]
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]