BG Report: Amtrak Texas Eagle 2/2: San Antonio to Los Angeles
In Part 1 of my huge adventure on the Amtrak Texas Eagle, I rode from Chicago nearly to San Antonio, TX overnight. My BGs onboard had all been less than… [keep reading]
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BG Report: Amtrak Texas Eagle 1/2: Chicago to San Antonio
Amtrak’s Texas Eagle is America’s longest passenger train, and the second longest in all of the Americas. I rode it the entire length, Chicago to Texas to Los Angeles, a… [keep reading]
BG Report: Amtrak Southwest Chief in coach for two days
I rode the entire route of Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, from Los Angeles to Chicago. The trip lasts two nights and about 43 hours, and I rode in a coach seat… [keep reading]
BG Report: Amid the alligators of Big Cypress, Florida
Good times with the frightening, wild gators; bad times with the blood sugar levels today. Analyzing them, if anything, the alligator part made them better. Maybe that’s the secret to… [keep reading]
BG Report: Amtrak Auto Train overnight (with a late dinner)
In the video, you’ll see how the Amtrak Auto Train left Lorton, VA a couple hours late, dinner came after midnight, and the cafe car was closed the next day,… [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]
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]