[Blindtlk] Any suggestions?

[Chris Nusbaum]

My O and M teacher uses a term called "tether traffic." This is 
traffic (especially louder ones, like trucks or busses) that you 
can follow the noise of to point you in the right direction, 
almost as if that traffic has a string, or tether, attached to 
you.  This came in very handy for me when I had to cross a 
driveway for our local fire house the other day without any grass 
or sidewalk to shoreline.  It just happened that when I was 
lining up to cross, a big Coke (as in Coka Colla) truck was 
driving on my parallel street.  Because this truck had a loud 
noise, I could use it as tether traffic to follow and stay on 
course, eventually finding the grassy shoreline of the sidewalk.  
Hope this helps!

 Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie J." <julielj at neb.rr.com
To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:07:53 -0500
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Any suggestions?

Tony,

Have you tried using the traffic to keep you going the right 
direction?
If it's fairly regular traffic you should be able to keep a 
reasonably
straight line of travel by keeping the traffic sounds in the same
direction relative to your body.

HTH
Julie


On 7/6/2011 3:57 PM, Tony C.  wrote:
 Hi, I have light perception but I also have Photophobia which 
does not
 allow me to open my eyes in the sunlight or pretty much anywhere 
there
 is artificial light.  My main cause of blindness is RP.

 I walk with a cane.

 Tony

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