He laughed at me. He tried not to, but he actually laughed at me. I knew he had been working to take me seriously but then he just started laughing. He was the manager of a hotel we stayed at on our trip. We were in the hotel for a couple of days and I […]
Years ago, when I first became a wheelchair user, Heathrow airport was a frightening place to fly into. We’d have asked for assistance to get from the gate to luggage and out and many times we sat up to 40 minutes waiting for that help to arrive. The terminal has long corridors and long ramps, […]
It is said we all die two deaths. One is the physical one, and the other comes on the last day that someone ever thinks of you or speaks of you or remembers who you are. When I first read this it struck me as inspiration to live a life worthy of memory, worthy of […]
The day hadn’t started and I’d offended someone. Sometimes the hardest part of travel is that you have to be out doing what you usually do at home. Breakfasts, lunches, dinners … hanging around while the room is being cleaned … that kind of stuff. As a result we have hundreds more interactions than we […]
To people this from Dave Hingburger not from team at sans. He is educating telling people not right what people do to people with disabilities on stories of bathroom stories not to embarrass people but to teach the right then wrong in couple story warning viewers k San manager Again with the toilet. We’d done […]
To people this from Dave Hingburger not from team at sans. He is educating telling people not right what people do to people with disabilities on stories of bathroom stories not to embarrass people but to teach the right then wrong in couple story warning viewers k San manager As stories regarding disability often do, […]
Instant validation. Sudden connection. Aloneness disappears. So much can happen, in an instant, when disabled people and their allies share stories. When we got off the plane, I handed Joe the cushion, which we’d carried on board and he put it in place. Beside him was a woman who was industriously and efficiently reassembling the […]
OK so I flew off the handle. I haven’t gotten so pissed off so quickly in such a long time. I was asking someone about the disabled parking to see if we were in the right part of the parking lot, the part that belonged to their business, and if not, what did we miss. […]
It was late when we checked into the hotel. We ran into a lot of delays and I’m delighted to say that none of them were disability related, we simply shared the frustrations of the crowds. That may sound odd but sometimes I’m glad that its not about me, my chair or what I’m able […]
We travel today. That means, hotels and rental cars airports and long flights. That also means a long litany of worries and stresses that come, not from travel, but from being a disabled traveler. There is so much trust involved. That the car will be the kind of car we ordered, not an upgrade, not […]
