Archive for January, 2013
Bringing the heat
Aaah Thailand! This is a place where each temple is more beautiful than the last, where gorgeous mountains are flanked by glorious rivers, and where the people are kinder than you can ever imagine. By holy s#%* this place is HOT, and I ain’t talking about the curry. Temps are regularly in the high 90s […]
No wonder I’m so tired all the time.
I had to come all the way to the Elephant Conservation Center in Thailand to find this out. Mystery solved:)
That whole language barrier thing….
Me: “Sawadee ka. One ice coffee.” Him: “Ok.” Me: “Milk.” Him: “Ok.” Me: “No sugar. No nam dahn.” Him: *Blank stare* Me: “Um. Uh. Milk OK. Sugar NO. Nam dahn NO (while making an “x” sign across my chest with my arms). Him: “Ah ok! Milk. No sugar.” Me: Silently pleased with myself for finally […]
This is what three months of d-travel looks like.
I said it could be done, but I never said it would be easy. With us changing hotels every few nights (sometimes every night) as we travel through Northern Thailand, packing and re-packing the ridiculous amount of diabetes stuff I have is exhausting. It literally takes up a third of my suitcase, space I would […]
Planning for not having plans.
We’ve been traveling for almost a week now, and so far, so good on the diabetes front. I’m realizing it’s not so much the fact that everything has carbs here-I can dose for rice and noodles with some level of accuracy. The tough part is the fact that our schedule is so varied and unpredictable. […]
Goodbye America, hello Bangkok!
Talk about a change of pace! Jacob and I arrived in Bangkok close to midnight on the 15th after a whopping 22 hours of travel time. Trying to keep track of when I took my last injection of Lantus while jumping time zones and fighting jet lag was no easy task. I eventually gave up […]
The Adventure Begins.
In 48 hours, we get on a plane to Bangkok. And we don’t come back to US until April 12th. Holy. Cow. It’s really happening. This is our chance to fulfill a dream, to travel without inhibition for 12 weeks, for my fiance and I to truly strike out on our own and begin our […]
This is my life right now.
Packing. Stashing. Planning. More packing. Mild panicking. That right there is the carnage of 12 Lantus boxes and 6 Humalog boxes. They’re less bulky out of the packaging so that’s what I’m going with. These 18 little boxes have nothing though, on the mountains of packing boxes that are taking over our house right now. […]
Pack by numbers!
Packing for a three month trip isn’t easy any way you slice it or dice it. There’s the endless debate of how many shirts is enough, filling the TSA-approved shampoo bottles, and deciding if you really need those flip flops or if you’re just going to buy a pair when you get to the beach […]
Some say I overplan…
…but I say you can never be too prepared to quit your job and travel in Asia for three months. Which is explains why I have like 50 bottles of test strips stockpiled for this next crazy chapter in my life. I realize this is borderline hoarding behavior. But I’d rather be that way with […]