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Ride for awareness

Trip calls attention to diabetes

Tracy Herbert, of Fort Worth, Texas, is creating awareness of type 1 diabetes by bicycling from San Francisco to New York along historic Highway 30.

Herbert arrived in Sidney Tuesday, taking a break before endeavoring on another 80- to 100-mile leg of her trip, which started in June.

Herbert prides herself on being a grandmother who has lived with diabetes for more than 40 years.

"When I was diagnosed, I was told I'd live for 20 years, I'd die with horrible complications, and never be able to have children," she said. "Well, I have two children, I'm still alive, obviously, and riding my bik...

 

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