https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/accessible-travel-adventure-with-kory-macy?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b07c5b1ba6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_07_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-b07c5b1ba6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=b07c5b1ba6&mc_eid=387e0173e2 #AccessibleTravel

Trivia Fans, if you guessed that nine airports in our Access Network were located in state capitals, you were right and we were not. 🤦‍♀️
How could we have forgotten our friends in the Nutmeg State?
🌟Hartford, CT - Bradley International Airport (BDL)
#VisualInterpreting #AccessibleTravel #blind #lowvision

#CostaRica welcomes travelers with disabilities. Juve Acuna, travel guide, spent a week with us sharing his expertise in flora, fauna, history, & #disability. Watch full 26-min video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1zokW8rnNk

#Accessibility #AccessibleTravel #DisabledTravel #travelogue

Meet the Visual Bucket List Foundation, they help children who are going blind to have a visual experience of a lifetime before they completely lose their vision.
https://evengrounds.com/the-visual-bucket-list-foundation/
#AccessibleTravel
#VisionLoss
#Blindness

After a large #taxi company closed, Union Cab is now the only one in #MadisonWI providing accessible, on-demand rides. With aging vehicles and capacity issues, they’re struggling to fill the gap.

https://captimes.com/news/government/hardly-any-madison-taxi-rides-for-those-with-disabilities/article_73527cd5-3d51-57a1-a73b-cc975ac9feea.html #Transit #PublicTransport #AccessibleTravel

A blind man in South Africa is working on becoming the first blind tour guide in his country.
I'm so glad to read this, because sometimes blind people are just boxed into fields society thinks they can. Such initiatives shouldn't be part of the news, but of the norm.
I gave sighted people city tours, while being blind. What enabled me to do so was my knowledge of the area, history and geography, and not my vision.

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/blind-man-on-a-mission-to-attain-tour-guide-dream-13545091-ee15-486c-b304-97a4255820fb

#AccessibleTravel
#AccessibleTourism
#blindness

Independence Monument in the Colorado National Monument. This national monument has many wheelchair accessible locations to take photos. Some are paved, others are more primitive for a wheelchair and you might need a push to get over some small barriers. It's a high mountain drive, hike, biking area with two lane road.

#Colorado
#NationalMonument
#photography
#accessibility
#AccessibleTravel

The California Zephyr Amtrak line snaking through a Rocky Mountain canyon forged by the Colorado River. The stretch of train going through Colorado reveals some of the most beautiful scenes on this line, which goes from Chicago to San Francisco.

I love Amtrak and that I can drive my mobility scooter on directly and am not separated from it. Airlines have lost or broken my scooter over the years.

#trains
#Colorado
#mountains
#photography
#AccessibleTravel
#accessibility

Specialized or mainstream vacations for blind people
https://evengrounds.com/specialized-or-mainstream-vacations-for-blind-people/
#AccessibleTravel
#AccessibleTourism

What blind people do in a museum?
https://evengrounds.com/what-blind-people-do-in-a-museum/
#AccessibleTravel

Some wheelchair users literally dehydrate and starve themselves for long flights because they are literally unable to use the inaccessible toilet. FAs may not be able to lift, may not have an aisle chair, and 2 people don't fit in most aircraft lavs. #accessibletravel

RT @allwheelsup@twitter.com

https://wjla.com/news/local/military-disabled-veteran-access-army-navy-wheelchair-air-travel-flying-legroom-congress-dot-dc-america-vets-wounded-paralyzed-combat-biden-laws

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/allwheelsup/status/1595148374596108295

A blind passenger was removed from a cruise ship, because the staff couldn't accommodate him. I wonder what kind of accommodations were they thinking about? What is unsafe for a blind person to enjoy a cruise?
https://globalnews.ca/news/9278221/paralympian-cruise-ship-accessibility/
#AccessibleTravel