This is the website that accompanies my YouTube channel T1D Wanderer. Stories from my travels not covered in my videos can be found here. There are also details about my blood sugar readings and Type 1 diabetes ups and downs while on the road.
Thanks for reading and watching. Everywhere is worth exploring!
–Jeremy
Not only was today an especially long and trying day on the trains, but my blood glucose wasn’t helping. For scheduling and structural reasons related to my cross-Honshū train adventure,… [keep reading]
I spent the morning walking around the Maizuru Port area in northern Kyōto Prefecture, Japan. Actually, the walk coincided with the day’s worst blood sugars. They went from high to… [keep reading]
Today I rode a series of trains along the coast of the Sea of Japan in Tottori, Hyōgo, and Kyōto Prefectures. Aside from the usual breakfast spike, it was low… [keep reading]
Today was a day spent on trains. Seven hours, on local trains only, from Niimi to Tottori, Japan. It was a series of four trains, with breaks in between each… [keep reading]
Breakfast walloped my blood glucose today, but thankfully it was short-lived. On a day of exploring the city of Niimi and going into spooky Ikura Cave, the real story was… [keep reading]
Today I rode a series of trains along the Geibi Train Line in Hiroshima Prefecture. A calamity with my train at one station meant I had to skip lunch. A… [keep reading]
My blood sugars today in the city of Iwakuni, Japan got high because I put too much trust in my CGM, but wandering around and some insulin choices brought it… [keep reading]
A tale as old as the hills: decent day of blood sugars after a high morning spike. Today was Day 1 of my big train trip across Honshū island in… [keep reading]
Today I walked around Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Blood sugar was pretty good most of the day – except for the morning post-breakfast spike. Unfortunately, I overcorrected it, which… [keep reading]
Today I investigated some huge changes coming to a classic tramway stop south of Ōsaka City, Japan. And my blood glucose level was pretty high during the entire thing. Unfortunately.… [keep reading]
Have a good morning, blood sugar-wise, and the rest of the day falls in to place. At least, that’s what happened when I set out to explore the Iga Railway… [keep reading]
Today was a tale of a challenging morning schedule with respect to insulin shots, and how the power of walking a lot keeps blood glucose readings down. Usually I take… [keep reading]
Bad start to today’s train ride on the Hokusei Line. The line is one of Japan’s four remaining narrow-gauge trains that carry passengers. It’s part of the Sangi Railway in… [keep reading]
I’d call today pretty much a success, diabetes-wise. It was a day of much walking, as I rode and walked around the Sangi Railway’s Sangi Line in northern Mie Prefecture,… [keep reading]
Today was a great day adventure-wise, but a very rough day diabetically, at Itami Airport in Ōsaka, Japan. The airport is known as Japan’s best spot for plane watching: you… [keep reading]
Today was a lot of walking because I went to see the cherry blossom (“sakura”) trees in full bloom in Nishinomiya, Japan. So, I had to balance the lowering of… [keep reading]
The last thing that happened after two hours of persistent lows last night was that finally – FINALLY – my blood sugar rose. So I could sleep. Actually it was… [keep reading]