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7 of the world’s best cities for accessible travel

fotografixx What makes a city truly accessible? It goes well beyond wheelchair ramps. For travelers with disabilities, the best destinations combine step-free public transportation, curb cuts and navigable sidewalks, accessible hotels and attractions, adapted toilets and taxis, and clear information for visitors with visual, hearing or cognitive disabilities. Those are broadly the same categories used by the European Commission in evaluating accessible cities: the built environment,…

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Happy Trails!

As you've probably figured out by the lack of posts here, we've retired from accessible travel blogging. However, we will still maintain the list of Northern California wheelchair accessible trails and there's still a ton of content on our site that will stay as an archive. It's been fun and rewarding. We'll still be traveling but will no longer be posting about our travels.Happy Accessible Trails to you all!www.musickchannel.com

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Water, Water, Everywhere in McCloud, California

  McCloud is famous for its very clean and pure drinking water. The town relies on three springs and pumps the water from it's reservoir to residents' taps with no treatment, only occasionally treating when tests reveal something that needs it. This water comes from Mount Shasta, which looms over everything here. It gets a ton of snow each winter and the volcanic soil filters the meltwater that eventually comes out very pure in the area's springs. Today, we're going to visit some of the…

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  • I hope this article will help folks with chronic pain who are thinking about going the hostel route for cheap travel to make an informed decision:

    Hostels With Pain

    While hostels aren't for me anymore, I drew upon my experience staying in them before I got too sick. And I think that some folks with different sorts of conditions might still be able to go hosteling.
  • It's music day here at The World on Wheels. Today's Travel Tune finds Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens singing about this week's destination. One of my favorite songs: http://tinyurl.com/395av7f
    Travel Tunes - Week 25
    Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Djh57 under CC-BY license Did you know that a big branch of country music is based in Bakersfield?  Some liken i...
  • Do you have a place you go to that no one else knows about? We do. You are going to think we've gone off the deep end but, seriously, this is one of the funnest places for us to go for a quick getaway. New trip report, pics, and video today at The World on Wheels: http://tinyurl.com/2aeqmrr
  • Who is behind The World on Wheels? Andy Hayes interviews Tim and I in Sharing Travel Experiences magazine today: http://tinyurl.com/2fd4ant
    Travels with a Wheelchair
    Interview with wheelchair-bound traveller Tim Musick, who hasn't let his disability stop him from seeing the world.
  • Wheelchair hiking? At most places, that means an extended sidewalk around a state park's parking lot. There are a few places, though, where a wheelchair can really get back to nature. On Monday, we featured a beaver pond trail near Redding, California. Tomorrow, we'll be featuring a superb accessible mountain and river trail in California's Gold Country. Today, we feature 8 wheelchair accessible hiking trails in Southern and Central California ranging from urban hills to remote sequoia groves. It's all at The World on Wheels: http://tinyurl.com/3ydq7fv
  • We finish up the week with an extensive finale to our accessible London Trip Report with side trips to Paris and Bath. Roman ruins, pubs, mummies, and the Mona Lisa are on tap today at The World on Wheels: http://tinyurl.com/2daync3
  • Driving in London is just a bad idea. Tube, bus, taxi, or walk...anything is better than driving and paying the congestion charge. The majority of it is accessible too, or as they say in London, "Barrier Free." We have a new London Transit Report now online at The World on Wheels: http://tinyurl.com/23yt5m2
    TRANSIT REPORT - LONDON, ENGLAND 2010
    How about a new transit report? OK, here's London... Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Nevilley under CC-BY-SA license You definitely do NOT wa...
  • Wondering if you can do England in your chair? Wonder no more, it's London Week on The World on Wheels. Come along as we recount our very first trip to this amazing city: http://tinyurl.com/y4us2l9
  • The final chapter of Tim's Trip Planning 101 series is now online at The World on Wheels. He's been planning a baseball trip to Ohio and Missouri. Take a look at just what it takes to plan a trip with a wheelchair: http://tinyurl.com/y2zgny2
    Trip Planning 101 – The Final Chapter
    See the previous installments: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Our Midwest baseball trip is coming together at a fast and furious pace...
  • Continuing Baseball Week, it's another edition of our Fields of Dreams on The World on Wheels travel blog where we visit different baseball stadiums. Today, one of the best accessible ballparks around, a stadium by a lake named simply, The Diamond: http://tinyurl.com/yavbp54
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