First Trip Together
Diabetes and Your Relationship
For couples taking their first real trip together when one of you has diabetes, and the partner who is about to see all of it up close.
Inside First Trip Together
- The full guide, read online as a book, always current as new issues land
- Six short videos to share before or during the trip, added after launch. Everyone who bought earlier gets each one, and the price goes to $50 once all six are in.
- An overview deck that walks the whole trip in one sitting, for the planning talk at the kitchen table.
- One-page team cards for how your travelers talk and work together: a before-we-leave huddle card, a who-does-what card, a card for when something goes wrong, and one card per issue.
- Printable checklists: packing, an emergency protocol, and a partner discussion guide.
- A 6x9 paperback for the bag, with the team cards, checklists and emergency protocol each on its own page. It comes after the online guide.
A first trip together puts diabetes in the room all day: the supplies on the nightstand, the carb guess at a restaurant table, the CGM alarm at 3 AM. You decide what to say before you book the room, who packs what, and who decides if you cannot. The guide walks those conversations in the order the trip brings them.
Your partner sees all of it for the first time, and the two of you decide what help looks like before 3 AM decides for you. The team cards cover when to ask, when to help, and when to sit there and let the person with diabetes lead.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 8 issues:
- 1. What You Say Before You Book the Room
- 2. Who Packs What, and Who Decides If You Cannot
- 3. Day Three, When They Have Seen All of It
- 4. The Menu, the Carb Guess, and the Person Across the Table
- 5. The Alarm at 3 AM and the Person Beside You
- 6. Ask, Help, or Sit There, and How to Pick One
- 7. The Morning the Whole Plan Goes Sideways
- 8. The Drive Home, and What You Both Learned
The guide follows one first trip that goes well, from the talk before you book the room through the morning the plan goes sideways, to the drive home and what you both learned.
How to get it
This guide is $25 at launch.
BTD Vacation Time: Online Coaching built around your trip
Three months of online sessions with your trip as the syllabus: a planning session with everyone who is traveling, written trip notes your family can take along, a check-in while you are away, and a debrief once you are home. It starts at $8,000, and availability is extremely limited. Family-to-family coaching, never medical advice.
If you're taking your first trip together and want help fitting it to the two of you, that's what BTD Vacation Time is for.
If your family wants Trapper on the trip itself, that is Diabetes Concierge: four days is $46,000 plus travel, inside the Diabetes Concierge range of $28,000 to $72,000 plus travel.
See BTD Vacation Time → Complete the intake form →Questions about a BTD Travel Guide or an order: Ask through the question form