I have overcome most of the challenges in my daily living, traveling presents a whole new venue with it’s own set of challenges. My partner and I both have cerebral palsy and when we are taken into an environment such as a private home our physical limitations become apparent. Family holidays (to visit extended family) at this point have excluded each other because of accessibility.
We have aspirations of traveling together to far off lands, but accessibility in places can prove problematic. Its little things that frighten me most like the handling of my wheelchair; I have heard many horror stories about chairs being damaged or all together deemed unusable after an airline has handled them. My chair isn’t exactly a prefab off the shop floor; in fact, the setting system is an exact mould of my shape to make sure proper posture despite a strong muscle tone!
I am thankful to mention that we are both manual chair users. I couldn’t imagine going on a trip to Europe only to remember that you forgot the electrical adaptor and can’t plug in your power wheelchair, I know people this has happened to.
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