The end of the beginning Posted by Meg at 09/18/08 05:03 PM

The first 17,000 miles were only the beginning on the road to health care reform.

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Conventions recoup and the home stretch Posted by Meg at 09/08/08 02:54 PM

We're down to our last couple of weeks on the road, re-energizing after back to back weeks of convention-mania

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Locals greet the Tour crew at convention city house parties Posted by Meg at 09/05/08 01:16 PM

Gatherings in Denver and Minneapolis provided the perfect opportunities to meet and greet with local consumer advocates and supporters. Want to be a part of the next big get together? Read more.

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DNC to RNC via *all* of the Sioux Cities Posted by Meg at 08/31/08 07:38 AM

GPS has its limitations when you don't know what state you're in

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Cover America Tour hits the Mile High City Posted by Meg at 08/25/08 10:39 PM

First stop: Denver. Next stop: Minneapolis. The Cover America Tour kicked off our conventions leg of the trip, ready to talk health care with the streets full of convention-goers.

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Postcard from the Road: Utah red rocks Posted by Meg at 08/19/08 06:27 AM

The route through southern Utah tops our list of most beautiful drives

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Cover America Tour hits the west coast Posted by Meg at 08/11/08 05:40 AM

It only took us 12,000 miles to get here.

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Postcard from the Road: Yellowstone National Park Posted by Meg at 08/04/08 06:41 PM

En route from Billings to Boise, we got to spend a day with the wildlife and geysers in surreal Yellowstone Park

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The blue beast gets a bath Posted by Meg at 08/03/08 11:22 PM

Any idea what 10,000 miles worth of dirt and bugs does to an RV? We found out.

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Postcard from the Road: Wild Wyoming Posted by Meg at 08/01/08 01:11 AM

... where the buffalo roam

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Postcard from the Road: Bighorn National Park Posted by Meg at 07/30/08 07:53 AM

These gorgeous landscapes are really cramping our work style

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Postcard from the Road: Dakotas border Posted by Meg at 07/27/08 11:29 PM

We jump for joy... in North Dakota

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Scene from the RV Posted by Meg at 07/26/08 04:11 PM

The honeymoon's over?

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Postcard from the Road: St. Joseph, Missouri Posted by Meg at 07/25/08 12:16 AM

Scenes from the heartland

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We made it halfway, y'all Posted by Meg at 07/19/08 12:51 PM

Cover America Tour lands in Austin, TX for the weekend

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Sweet and bitter: A brief taste of New Orleans Posted by Blake at 07/14/08 11:25 PM

Coco Robicheaux, shrimp etouffee, Bourbon Street – bet you can’t guess where we spent the weekend?

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Three states in a day... Posted by Meg at 07/11/08 11:16 PM

...or, what are we doing back in Tennessee?

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Onions to blueberries to mahi mahi Posted by Meg at 07/08/08 04:31 PM

Encounters with local fare and flavors as we make our way through the southeast

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The fight for safer care brings advocates together for a special July 4th Posted by Meg at 07/07/08 05:24 AM

Almost a year to the day of her husband Willie's death, Dianne Parker hosted the first South Carolina Patient Safety Day in honor of Willie and the many others harmed by their medical care

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As Luck Would Have It Posted by Blake at 06/29/08 11:53 PM

As luck would have it, we arrived in Charleston, West Virginia on Saturday to find an arts festival in full swing, with live bluegrass music and some of the area’s finest artists displaying their work.

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Heading South Posted by Blake at 06/25/08 10:47 PM

We unhooked the RV and bid farewell to the Midwest on Wednesday, heading south out of St. Louis along the mighty Mississippi River

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Scenes from the road Posted by Meg at 06/23/08 07:02 PM

Pics from Cover America Tour adventures in the Midwest

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One is the loneliest number Posted by Meg at 06/20/08 04:27 PM

Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania – struggling to buy insurance on your own proves to be a common thread through many of the states we’ve visited on the Cover America Tour

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Crossing the Keystone State Posted by Meg at 06/13/08 02:36 PM

After four days, three cities, two stories and one media event, we rolled out of Pennsylvania and into Ohio.

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Talking patient safety in central NY Posted by Meg at 06/09/08 12:35 AM

Twelve days into the Cover America Tour we’ve heard overwhelmingly from people about problems with the cost of health care, but there are other critical issues such as quality and safety we’ll be exploring as we make our way across the country this summer.

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Cover America Tour hearts Vermont Posted by Meg at 06/05/08 10:28 PM

Plans to pull into the Brattleboro farmers market and talk to folks were rained out, so we kept on rolling across this glorious green state.

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Portlanders Turn Out to Tell Health Care Stories Posted by Meg at 06/02/08 09:46 PM

Rainy weather has been as much a fixture at Portland’s Old Port Festival as the lobster rolls in recent years, so we felt especially blessed when we got both a gorgeous day and a sea of Portlanders ready to talk health care on Sunday.

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Rain in Maine Posted by Meg at 05/31/08 10:30 PM

…but our spirits remain un-dampened. We’ve had a great start to the trip. Four days and four compelling health care stories later we’re camped at lush, marshy spot just outside of Portland, Maine

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The Big Sendoff Posted by Meg at 05/30/08 09:21 PM

We pulled out of Consumers Union headquarters in Yonkers, NY, on a high, and who wouldn’t. A cloudless sky, a parking lot full of friends and colleagues hugging us goodbye, a whole summer ahead of us cruising around America in an RV. Who wouldn’t want to start a summer like that?

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Geared up and ready to launch Posted by Meg at 05/27/08 08:45 PM

The Cover America Tour is 114 days long, but the preparation has taken that long and then some. To our fellow RV campers, highway drivers and summer travelers, I say to you: We are one prepared bunch.

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One diagnosis away Posted by Meg at 05/15/08 02:58 AM

At 27, I was uninsured for a year. Between jobs (non-profit jobs, nonetheless), I always knew that a clumsy step off the curb or a sudden sickness would mean emergency care and intolerable medical debt.

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