General diabetic travel information – from planning tips to airplane travel tips to tips for staying healthy while traveling I’ve tried to pull together my lessons learned for you.
While many people can buy a last minute flight, pack a quick carry-on, and zoom off to foreign lands, a diabetic has more to consider. Here are some Diabetic Travel Tips to review before buying that ticket or getting on that plane. After each new and exciting trip I review
Note: I am not a medical professional. I am simply a 50-something type 1 diabetic who has been diabetic for fifty years, and who has happily traveled for many years. (OMG – I’m now 61 years old. I’m not updating this blog post to say “I’m a 60-something person” because
In my twenties, after having traveled quite a bit with my parents as a child and teenager, I swore off travel. Why would I want to travel? Why indeed? It can be expensive, especially the way we travel, in that we aren’t backpackers. Balancing my blood glucose levels is so
When your technology fails you My biggest fear while traveling has always been and will always be the destruction of my insulin by heat. One day your stash can be fully functional and the next it could be ineffective. This has never happened to me, and I work very hard
I feel that today’s Type 1 diabetic has no excuse. No excuse not to take care of one’s self. No excuse not to travel. I have spent my life, most of which has been diabetic, by living from excuse to excuse. Granted, when one was diagnosed at the age of
Or is it better to go around the world in spits-and-starts, in manageable and affordable chunks, and let that trip last a lifetime? A few years ago, as I approached retirement, I considered a “trip around the world” as a possible retirement present to myself. It sounded so exotic, so
My husband Greg Powers is a Diet Dr. Pepper addict. He has loved Dr. Pepper since he was 12 years old, since the day he tasted it at a roadside restaurant on his way to summer camp. At the age of eighteen, he joined the Air Force, and when they
I’ve been traveling for years with my Medtronics Paradigm pump. I had always focused on how to get through airport security with the least inconvenience. I had never focused on the risks to my device. Recently I had reason to call Medtronics’ customer support with a travel-related question and was
Hello, my name is Wendy Kirkwood Powers and this is my travel blog with travel tips and travel stories for diabetics and non-diabetics alike. |
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I am a type 1 diabetic, and have been for fifty-three years. From Antarctica to Svalbard, Australia to Africa, I’ve visited every continent. With my husband Greg, I have been on safari to Africa, wandered among the blue boobies in the Galapagos, slogged through jungle mud in Laos, and he has even chased an ocelot in Costa Rica (with his camera!) Our travel has taken careful planning, and constant attention to what is most important. I want to give you the inspiration and travel tips to enable you also to look beyond your own personal challenges, to not hide behind those words “I could never” and to see the world. |
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Scotland Sand and Sea - an unusual view of the Islands and Highlands of Scotland in paperback and Kindle from Amazon |
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Antarctica: Voyage Beyond the End of the World Glimpses of penguins, seals, whales and ice collide with fragments of shipboard life and cold feet. in paperback and Kindle from Amazon |
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Amazon - The River Grows on You - My top three Amazon experiences? The amazing mud cliffs and boats along the huge Amazon ... in paperback from Amazon |
