International Travel with Diabetes
Customs, Foreign Pharmacies, and Insulin Across Time Zones
For travelers crossing a border with diabetes, and the people crossing it with them.
Inside International Travel with Diabetes
- 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.
An international trip adds customs paperwork, supplies for a trip you cannot resupply, and nineteen hours door to door. You land in a different time zone than your insulin, stand at a pharmacy counter in a language you do not speak, and find out what your insurance stops doing at the border. The guide puts those decisions in order, starting with the day you decide the trip is possible.
A language you do not speak and a border to cross make the travel partner the second voice at every counter. The team cards cover who holds the letters and the prescriptions, and who speaks up when something goes wrong far from home.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 10 issues:
- 1. The Trip You Decide Is Possible
- 2. Customs, Letters, and the Paperwork That Crosses a Border
- 3. Supplies for a Trip You Cannot Resupply
- 4. Nineteen Hours Door to Door
- 5. Landing in a Different Time Zone Than Your Insulin
- 6. The Pharmacy Counter in a Language You Do Not Speak
- 7. What Your Insurance Stops Doing at the Border
- 8. Food You Did Not Choose, Distances You Did Not Plan
- 9. When Something Goes Wrong Far From Home
- 10. The Debrief, and the Country After This One
The guide follows one trip abroad that goes well, from the day you decide it is possible through the long travel day, to the debrief and the country after this one.
How it will work
- Sign in free and you'll hear the day it lands.
- On launch day, add it to your cart in the BTD Store and check out for $25.
- Open your access link and read it with everyone traveling, before you go.
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 traveling abroad and want help fitting it to your family, 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