[nabs-l] Independent Travel At Crowded Major College Sporting Events

[Kerri Kosten]

Hi All:

Thanks so much for all your responses!

I will go to th basketball game again as I did last week, and go to
the football game with someone, and hope I can get them to understand
that I want to explore, even if it's just going to the concession
stand and that they do not need to guide me absolutely everywhere.

Kerri

On 11/9/10, Josh Kennedy <jkenn337 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My opinion on it is this. If I were going to a baseball game in my home
> town here first I'd get a cell phone even if it were a track-phone.
> Around here I have to take either paratransit or cabs. I live in
> Pensylvania by the way in the city of Reading.  So anyway I'd take a cab
> there and go a bit early and maybe have someone give me a hand to my
> seat at least the first few times until I knew the stadium well enough
> to do it on my own. After I get my bachelors degree I'd like to take a
> trip back to Florida eventually. While there I'll probably get sighted
> help either that or by then I'll have a good sendero gps to guide me to
> major attractions. The question sometimes that you have to ask yourself
> is, do I want to spend most of my time trying to find the attraction I
> wish to have fun at just because I want to be totally independent and on
> my own, or do I in this instance want some sighted guide help so I can
> quickly get to that favorite attraction in order to spend more time
> there, get there early, etcetera?
> When I go to church I usually go early. Its not that I don't like crowds
> crowds are fine with me for me rather I mean. But I sit in the front.
> why? primarily so I can be the first person to get communion and so I
> don't have to count seats and remember where I was since its a farely
> large church building. Either that or I sit in the very back or when I
> have my son we go to the sound-proof nursery/parent/kids room so as not
> to disturb other people and so he can play with other kids. Most of my
> friends when I went to Kutztown University, a physical campus located in
> Kutztown Pensylvania most of my friends there were other blind people
> and others with various disabilities. I tried dating sighted people but
> it just never worked out. My wife and I met or re-met there, got married
> and we have a son but he is sighted. Most of the friends that I do have
> from living around here in the city are people who I met in church.
>
> Josh
>
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