The Snowbird Guide
Seasonal Migration and Retiring with Diabetes
For retirees and seasonal travelers splitting the year between two homes, and the partner or adult child who helps from far away.
Inside The Snowbird Guide
- 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 year with two addresses turns a season of supplies into a supply chain. You fill prescriptions at a pharmacy that has never seen you, keep two care teams talking about one body, and adjust as two climates move your numbers. Retirement adds the first winter with no work calendar holding the day together.
Two homes, a partner or adult child far away, and one shared plan that says who knows where the supplies are. The team cards cover who holds the prescription list and who checks in when the season changes.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 8 issues:
- 1. The Year That Has Two Addresses
- 2. A Season of Supplies Is a Supply Chain
- 3. The Pharmacy That Has Never Seen You
- 4. Two Care Teams, One Body
- 5. The Questions to Ask Your Plan Before You Head South
- 6. The First Winter With No Work Calendar Holding the Day Together
- 7. What Two Climates Do to Your Numbers
- 8. The Migration That Runs Itself Next Year
The guide follows one migration season that goes well, from the year with two addresses through the first winter in the second home, to a migration that runs itself next year.
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 planning a season in two places 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.
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