I haven’t been getting as much exercise on this trip as I’d like. I am pushing more than I do normally, but not enough to equal what I do in the gym. On Sunday we decided to go to a grocery store to pick up some things for the room. I told Joe that I’d […]
We were talking a tour around Canada’s biggest mall, in Edmonton, when we decided to stop for lunch. They have lots of restaurants but we really are fans of food courts and we found one, picked a spot to get food and loaded up our trays. We found a table and got into place. We […]
The automatic check in machine told me that I had to go to Special Services in order to get a gate tag for my wheelchair. A woman, working for the airline, said that she’d take me over to where it was and I asked if we could wait until Joe was back from returning the […]
I’m just not getting the exercise that I typically do at home while I’m on the road. Unlike my gym, the hotel gyms don’t have the same kind of accessible equipment. And, let’s be honest, even if they did, it’s tiring being on the road and I’m not entirely sure I’d go even if they […]
We should have shouted. The line up was really long. People had frayed patience. All of us had had long travel days. We landed in Vancouver and like a 100 other people needed a rental car. We approached the desk and asked for a specific kind of car that they had in their fleet and […]
We were having breakfast. I had decided that I really wanted a big bowl of porridge, even though that’s not on the list of things I should eat, and I was tucking into it. There were two people working the room, cleaning up tables after guests left. It was a busy spot. Both of them […]
All the boxes were ticked: flat entrance bars around the toilet bars in the shower doors wide enough to accommodate my chair toilet on floor not hanging from wall Those are my basic asks. This had been checked assiduously and everyone was confident that we were good to go. So we arrived at the hotel, […]
We had to park very close to the front door of the hotel. There was little room for dropping off, the cut curb was extremely close to the door and the slope of the driveway made it both dangerous and daunting to attempt as an exit from the car. Just as we pulled in a […]
There is an idea about inclusion that I think needs to be examined. I also think the only people who can examine this are those who are out in the community working or participating in some way. Those who have been ‘included.’ More and more I believe that the end result of the movements towards […]
We were considering going to an area of town called The Old Mill Market and had nearly dispensed with the idea. These kinds of markets, in old buildings are often less than accessible and really frustrating for me as a shopper. So I went to a review site where customers can rate a place and […]
