We had a three hour layover at LAX. The weather was bad at O’Hare, flights were being grounded. We listened to what sounded like an increasingly crazed gate agent: “Do not stand in line to ask about your flight. I will let you know when I have more information.” At first I felt sympathetic towards [...]
Dec 292007
Dec 292007
Beach number two with wheelchair accessibility – Salt Pond Beach Park is near Hanapepe, and also has a Landeeze beach wheelchair. The lifeguards here are less familiar with the chair and had to dig it out from under a bunch of stuff, so I guess it’s not used very often. It’s kind of busted up [...]
Dec 272007
The drive up Waimea Canyon is fantastic, and there are numerous wheelchair accessible lookouts. The first lookout, Waimea Canyon Lookout, has a ramped path to a lower lookout. There’s a higher spot that is accessible via a very steep path – if you take that one, you should plan to have help coming down to [...]
Dec 272007
Koloa, just north of Poipu, is pretty much just a couple of blocks of shops. There’s a grocery store, a bank, a post office, and a good pharmacy (not drug store) in addition to more boutique-y/tourist places. Wheelchair access is very iffy. Ramps lead up and around buildings to stairs. Short stretches of sidewalk lead [...]
Dec 262007
Beach number one with wheelchair accessibility: Poipu Beach Park has a Landeeze all-terrain wheelchair. Park across the street – there are two permit spots. There’s a paved walk up to the beach (but not to the lifeguard station). There are accessible restrooms. Get your buddy to go to the lifeguard station and ask for the [...]
Dec 252007
Mele Kalikimaka from Kauai! We are spending two weeks on Garden Island. We’re staying in a condo at Kuhio Shores, overlooking the beach. I conducted a fairly extensive email communication with the owner over several months prior to our trip. My regular chair is 24 inches wide without any camber, so I told him I [...]
Dec 202007
So you’re in a world-class cosmopolitan city with a fantastic subway transit system. You get your handy-dandy subway map, and you start trying to decipher the tiny little symbols that mean that a particular station is wheelchair-accessible, if the elevator isn’t broken. Wouldn’t it be easier if someone just erased the inaccessible stations, so you [...]
Dec 202007
Occasionally I will get into a funk and wonder if I want too much – too much access, too much fairness, too much equality. Luckily there are people to come to my rescue. Stephen Kuusisto points out that providing special education to kids in our public schools, or putting in accessible curb cuts are no [...]
Dec 162007
For the past two weeks, a film crew has been making a training video at DIA to teach TSA employees nationwide the proper techniques for screening disabled travelers and their medical equipment. The video crew filmed about 40 “scenarios” covering all categories of disabilities “? mobility, hearing, visual and “hidden,” which includes travelers’ heart disease [...]
Dec 142007
From Australia’s The Age: Personal accounts from disabled travellers contained in the report include a quadriplegic man who was incorrectly told an airline was “breaking the law” by having him onboard.
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