I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since my last entry on this web site. A lot has happened since then.

If you recall, I mentioned in my previous entry that I was going to keep The Dream Tour web site online so people could browse through it, but I would also “freeze” it. That is, no longer post additional entries.

I also mentioned that I was working on a new web site. Well, that site is now ready to go. Here is its address:

http://www.livingwellwithdiabetes.com/

I’ll be posting information there about what I’ve been up to in the past couple weeks and also the latest happenings in my personal journey of living well with diabetes.

If you’re on The Dream Tour’s mailing list, this will probably be the very last email you’ll receive from The Dream Tour.

Some of you will probably want to continue to receive emails notifying you of updates on my new web site. If you do, please visit this page to have yourself added to my new mailing list:

Living Well With Diabetes Mailing List Subscription

As as alternative, you could subscribe to my RSS feed. If you don’t understand what an RSS feed is, don’t worry — just subscribe to my mailing list because it accomplishes basically the same thing.

I’ve had a number of people say they’re going to miss my daily postings about the adventures of The Dream Tour. I’m going to miss creating them. But, as a good friend of mine once said about the completion of The Dream Tour: “It’s not the end. It’s the end of the beginning.” I just need to figure out what it is that is now beginning.

This past week, I was sitting around the living room, totally befuddled from the hydrocodone I’m taking for the pain associated with my broken rib and various contusions and abrasions. That stuff makes me so unfocused that on Tuesday, I failed to notice that when I got dressed in the morning I put on two completely unmatched socks. They were both mostly white, but one had black trim and the other gray trim.

Anyway, it was in that state of mind that I decided what I’m going to do with The Dream Tour web site: nothing. I knew I was in an altered state of mind, so I decided I would “sleep on it”, so to speak. Now, several days later, it still seems like the right thing to do, so I thought I would post an entry, making it official.

What I mean by “nothing” is I will leave it and all its content online, at least for the immediate future. If you’re feeling like you need a Dream Tour fix, feel free to browse it.

I’d like to continue to write regularly about cycling and living well with diabetes, so I’m going to set up a new web site for that. I’ll let you know when that new site is ready to go. In the meantime, I’ll continue to post very occasional entries here on www.thedreamtour.org.

If you want to continue to receive emails notifying you of updates and new entries on www.thedreamtour.org, then there’s nothing you need to do. If you’ve heard enough from me for now, you can be removed from my mailing list by filling out the form here:

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I’ll then send you one final email message as a confirmation that you’ve been removed from my mailing list.

A comment by Kassie on my previous entry pointed out my obvious oversight. I should have included some diabetes-related statistics.

A few days ago, I totalled up some of the data from The Dream Tour. Some of the numbers are kind of interesting, so here they are:

If there’s additional data you’re interested in, let me know. I’m not sure I’ll have the data, but if I do, I’ll be happy to share it with you.

Yesterday, I couldn’t resist returning to the scene of the mishap on my bicycle. I just had to take a look at the manhole cover that took me down.

So, here it is. I remember it as being 4-5 inches deep. In reality, it’s only 3-4 inches. I’m not sure whether another inch deeper would have made any difference in the final outcome.

In the left photo, you can see the gatorade stain(in the distance, to the right of the white line) that I left in the road. That’s pretty much where I came to rest after it happened.