The Road Trip Rules
Family Road Trips with Diabetes
For families driving a long way with someone who has diabetes: the kit, the food, the driver rotation and the stops, agreed before the car leaves the driveway.
Inside The Road Trip Rules
- 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 road trip gives you the freedom to stop, get out and dance at gas stations, and that freedom is easy to lean on. Hour four brings a gas station as the only food, six hours in a seat can move the numbers, and a breakdown can leave you looking for a pharmacy in a town you do not know. The guide sets the rules your family keeps on the drive.
Everyone in the car shares one kit, one driver rotation and one call on when to stop. The team cards spell out who keeps the kit in the console, what decides who drives, and who says it is time for the next rest stop.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 8 issues:
- 1. Dancing at Gas Stations, and Why That Freedom Is the Trap
- 2. The Kit in the Console and the Kit in the Trunk
- 3. Hour Four, and the Only Food Is a Gas Station
- 4. What Six Hours in a Seat Does to Your Numbers
- 5. Who Drives, and What Decides It
- 6. The Rest Stop Where Somebody Catches It Early
- 7. The Breakdown, the Detour, and the Pharmacy in a Town You Do Not Know
- 8. The Drive Home, and the Rules You Actually Keep
The guide follows one family road trip that goes well, from the kit you pack in the console and the trunk through the breakdown and the detour, to the drive home and the rules you actually keep.
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 a road trip 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