“Twenty years from now you may be extra disenchanted by the stuff you didn’t do than by those you probably did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from secure harbor. Catch the commerce winds in your sails. Dream. Uncover.” — Mark Twain
Good day everyone!
Final month, a gaggle of boaters made the information after they had been noticed amassing cans of beer from a derailed prepare in Montana. The pictures caught my eye due a big wheelchair image painted on the boat.
Seems, the small drift boat is definitely wheelchair accessible — constructed by Willie Boats, it consists of accessibility options like a raised ground, securement tie-downs, and a ramp for energy wheelchairs. The corporate produced a implausible video in regards to the boat’s accessibility and the way one man is utilizing it to regain his independence.
Summertime Adventures
Final summer time, I took a monthslong journey by means of Europe and the Center East, visiting some 15 international locations — it was an exciting journey and made for some of the thrilling journey seasons of my life. One product of that journey was a trio of accessible journey guides to the Baltic States, which I talk about later on this publication.
This summer time received’t be as fast-paced, however my plans are beginning to come collectively — I’ll be exploring many extra cities in america. My intention was to stay stateside, nevertheless there could also be at the very least one worldwide shock — final week, I stumbled upon an incredible airfare deal to Australia and tentatively booked it for July. I’m unsure if I’ll find yourself going (two visits to Australia in 6 months appears extreme), however you’ll actually know if I do!
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Thanks, as all the time, to your readership — benefit from the weekend!
All one of the best,
John Morris
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An lawyer for the Chicago Cubs offered a morally bankrupt argument — that disabled folks should not have any expectation of equal entry.
Air New Zealand will allow economic system class passengers on its extremely long-haul flights to the USA to lease a bunk mattress for a portion of the flight.
Factors and miles democratize journey. They permit on a regular basis folks such as you and me to journey extra and journey higher with out spending a great deal of cash, and also you don’t need to fly (or go bankrupt) to earn them. Learn how I earn the factors to pay for journey.
The international locations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, positioned on the jap coast of the Baltic Sea, are dwelling to a few of Europe’s most attention-grabbing and historic capital cities. I’ve beforehand written at size about accessibility in Riga, Latvia and Vilnius, Lithuania, and right this moment I’m excited to finish the trifecta — with the discharge of the Tallinn, Estonia Wheelchair Accessible Journey Information.
Take a look at a few of what’s contained in the free Tallinn Journey Information:
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These well-liked articles appeared in a earlier publication — in the event you haven’t taken a glance but, give them a learn!
Wanting again on 10 years of accessible journey, I mirrored on what evokes me to journey, the worry of the unknown, and the tales all of us need to share.
I usually examine two books a month, and thought I’d begin sharing my choices with you. A lot of the books I learn aren’t about journey — indirectly, at the very least — but it surely simply so occurs that my newest learn does have a journey element. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, is a New York Occasions bestseller that “traces one younger girl’s journey from prognosis to remission to re-entry into ‘regular’ life,” which features a street journey of 15,000 miles!
That’s all for now, of us! See you subsequent week within the Premium Publication, or later this month in the usual subject!
