Being physically or mentally challenged doesn't have to keep you at home! Here are ways to "trot" the globe, so to speak, for less.
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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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There's a great, new trend in wheelchairs to make lightweight, folding power chairs that are perfect for traveling. The downside is that they use lithium batteries, which makes airlines a bit nervous about them. Nevertheless, protocols have been established to travel with them but what if the person at the gate hasn't been made aware of them? That's what happens today at The World on Wheels.
It's a sad sign of the times that travel days are so stressful, even when they go fairly well. We recount the miserable reception we got in Atlanta when we check into our hotel, tired and hungry, today at The World on Wheels.
How far will a couple of years of very casually accumulating reward points get you? At The World on Wheels, about two weeks worth of travel. Come along as we start a 16 day, points funded trip as these (not really) points warriors take a swing though the southeast, with a side trip to the Bahamas.
4 Days Wildebeest Migration Adventures
Day 1: Nairobi-Maasai Mara
Pick up from your hotel in the morning and head west for Maasai Mara adventure destination for lunch at the campsite, followed by afternoon game drive in the game reserve which is Kenya's finest wildlife sanctuary.Including migrants, well over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. Although July, August and September are the months when the Mara plains are filled with great migration adventures of wildebeest and zebra, there is also resident wildlife year round. The famous Maasai tribesmen live within the dispersal area of the game reserve. Dinner and overnight adventure Camping.
Days 2 : Maasai Mara adventures
A full day spent game viewing a cross the rich adventure destination. The famous mara is renowned for its great herds of plain game, black-manned lions, leopard and cheetah but also contains numerous elephant and virtually every type of wild life adventures found in Kenya. All meals and overnight adventure camping.
Day 3 : Maasai Mara morning adventures
Morning game drive in Masaai Mara with an afternoon optional visit to the Maasai villages or nature walk with maasai guides, return to the campsite for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Maasai Mara-Nairobi
Pre breakfast adventure viewing, return to the campsite for late breakfast, and leave campsite and proceed to Nairobi with lunch enroute arriving late afternoon.
WHAT’S INCLUDED ON THE PRICE.
-Transport based on our customized seven-seater safari Vehicle with specially modified suspension, full-length photographic roof hatches and seats designed with seat belt and all clients are guaranteed window seats.
- All game Park Entrance fees
- All Camping Fees
-Full board accommodation offered in a luxury large spacious tent, all en suite bathrooms with hot and cold shower, flash toilet, changing room and lockers for valuables in Masai Mara.
-Fullboard
www.abanderatrails.com
Another new Cocktail Hour featuring our favorite designated driver, L.A.'s Gold Line train. A list of all the breweries along the line, a dozen of which you can stop and have a sample at. It's the Drinkers Dozen, today at The World on Wheels.
We're all new at The World on Wheels today as we look for remnants of the vast agricultural empire that used to exist about 30 miles east of Los Angeles and make a meal out of the results.
t's a brand new Cocktail Hour today at The World on Wheels as we recount our St. Patrick's Day pub crawl from last weekend. Also, trying a new way of embedding video in the post. Let me know what you think about that, thanks.
We're tasting five German beers at The Phoenix Club in Anaheim, California, on a new cocktail hour at The World on Wheels.
It's presidential library #3 for us as we make it to the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California. All new, today at The World on Wheels.
It's a free night in Visalia, California but I'll have to dig in the couch cushions for a quarter, though. All new, today at The World on Wheels.
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