Comments on: Low Carb Eating on a Road Trip

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 01:52:10 +0000

I recently made a VERY long road trip to attend my youngest son’s military graduation. I drove from Michigan to Ft. Benning in Georgia, then drove my son to Virginia where he lives with his father so I could attend his graduation party there, and then drove back home to Michigan. 2, 225 miles in 5 days with 1 day between each leg of the trip.

I packed a cooler with deviled eggs, meat sticks (like summer sausage or hunters sausage), cheese chunks, cottage cheese, celery sticks, s/f jello and lots of water. It made the trip a lot easier!

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 21:42:19 +0000

Hi, your trip sounds awesome!! I live in Las Vegas, Nv (have for years). I would like to apologize for our downtown (north end). I hate it! It’s not what most of the residents want! But the city officials say freedom of speech! Yuk!
There is so much more to see and do in the Las Vegas valley, just not casinos!
Hope you can return someday and see the beauty of the desert!!
Thanks for sharing!
Pam?

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:48:27 +0000

In reply to Steph. We were walking after parking the car and there was a homeless man, possibly on drugs following us and then passed us and continued to turn around, stare and make comments to my husband, quite confrontational. My kids were quite scared. Once we got to the sign which must have been Fremont street, not sure, it seemed somewhat better but there were lots of half dressed men and woman, drunk and taking pics. We quickly left to find our car as soon as we could. Not trying to put any area down at all, I know it happens everywhere, but we were definitely not in the right area with kids that's for sure. I admire you ministering to those in need in your area.

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:41:02 +0000

Ouch! We are a group of 3 low-carb mamas, who follow you, who happen to live near North Las Vegas. We know our city has a high homeless population near D street or possibly you were at Fremont street which the character actors on the street are sexualized; however, we try to minister to those in need of a reset on life. We model reaching out to those people with kindness and compassion. We teach our older kids that leading those types of lifestyles are often a product of hurt, abuse, abandonment, and addiction and not necessarily a choice. Not one of us have ever had a “scary” experience in those areas. It could’ve been an amazing learning/teaching experience on the human condition instead of sweeping it under the rug as “sketchy”. We couldn’t imagine your time on the strip, further south, was exactly child-friendly with all the escort cards strewn about and the drunken tourists…

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:00:18 +0000

In reply to Gale Schmidt. Thank you!

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:59:48 +0000

In reply to Amy. So much to see, wish we could have gone there!

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:13:58 +0000

You hit a lot of great national parks, but you missed my all time favorite. Personally, I would have skipped the Four Corners monument and headed for Mesa Verde National Park. There’s so much so much more to do there (exploring various ancient cliff dwellings) and an excellent historical museum with many artifacts of the people who once lived there.

By: Gale Schmidt

Gale Schmidt — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:14:55 +0000

Wow!!! Thanks so much for sharing these great pictures of your trip. I really enjoyed this.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:46:58 +0000

In reply to Kelly. The last week was difficult with being in the car so much to get home. I gained about 4 pounds.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:19:51 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! It’s very inspiring. That is a once in a lifetime opportunity that your kids will never forget! Did you end up gaining much weight at all?

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:51:25 +0000

In reply to Lin. Wow that was an awesome trip! We drove over 8000 miles! Wasn't easy but we have memories!

By: Lin

Lin — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:59:15 +0000

We live in Virginia and took a similar trip about 4 years ago. We made it out to the west coast and drove up the Pacific coast from L.A. to Seattle. We intended to go on up to Vancouver but I had a touch of the flu so we stayed an extra day in Bremerton, Washington. We came back through the northern tier and crossed Lake Michigan on a ferry and on home to Virginia. It took us 32 days and 9000 miles and I’m ready to do it again! I’m glad you had a wonderful trip, even with the blown tire, and are safely home.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:14:22 +0000

In reply to Vonny. WOW! You are a traveler! I'm happy we did it with the family but not sure I'd want to do it again as it was quite stressful, especially with the blown tire. Good for you on so many fun adventures!

By: Vonny

Vonny — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 23:26:56 +0000

Hi Brenda, Wow so glad to see you and your family have these great memories that you will treasure for a lifetime. The pics you posted reminded us of our 3 american road trips with #4 coming up April 2018. (This time from L.A. across to Miami then up the east coast to Maine). We’re both Aussies that love travelling your great country, thanks to “Cruise America” doing over 20,000 miles on our trips so far, loving and laughing over every mile as we have so much fun. I agree Buc-ee’s is fantastic for low carb snacks, we also loved “Dollar Tree” As were huge Harley Davidson fans i think we have seen inside almost every dealership we passed, visited the Harley Museum in Milwaukee and the Harley Cafe in Vegas. Your pic of the caravan tyre reminded me of our first trip in Australia with our 5th wheeler, at the top of Queensland state cruising along on the coastal road late arvo and wondered why a car passed us pointing to the back of our 5th wheeler, on inspection yep you guessed it our wheel was driving on the rim! Why does this seem to happen miles from the closest tyre shop? Sorry for the ramble, but had to share as we know where your’e coming from.
Cheers, Von.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:50:28 +0000

In reply to Jeri Mayes. Thank you!