[nagdu] Getting around Springfield, Ohio

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Chaim.
I don't know Springfield, or Ohio, but I've had good success exploring
places beforehand with GPS.  Do you have a GPS program?  I have Sendero,
running on my BrailleNote. If I know I'm staying at a certain address, and
going to another, I put in the first address and look at points of
interest nearby.  Same with the second address.  I could also create a
route between the 2 places, but I wouldn't completely rely on that,
because, in my experience, GPS occasionally tells me to walk on the
highway, a very bad idea.  Sometimes, I make my hotel address my starting
point, and pretend-walk down a street, seeing what points of interest
Sendero gives me.
This has worked well for me when my husband and I vacation somewhere we've
never been.
Just thought I'd mention it, in case it's helpful.
Wishing your wife good luck with her new job.
Tracy

> Hi Everybody:
>
> To those of you on Oagdu, I will make a more formal introduction later. I
> want to ask in advance for all responses to this message to be made
> off-list.
>
> My wife Brooke just landed a job as a reservationist with Red Roof Inn.
> Though she will be working out of our house, her initial training is
> taking place in Springfield, Ohio at their call center. Unless we hear
> otherwise from her OOD counselor, she is responsible for her
> transportation to and from Springfield, as well as buying food to have in
> her motel room during the afternoons and evenings of her four-week stay.
> (She will be coming home to me for weekends.) Even if OOD does provide
> transportation for her from Dayton to Springfield, I will inevitably come
> see her at some intermittant points during training. Once upon a time,
> when I was a young boy on into my adolescence, our family dentist was in
> Springfield. Occasionally, my parents took us to stores here and there
> while visiting the small city. My father also had a temporary job there
> with treating Kosher meat at a meat-packing place.  However, that was so
> long ago, that I would not have paid any attention to the city's
>  layout. I understand that the Red Roof Inn call Center is across the
> street from some mall.
>
> When I trained with Einstein at Seeing Eye, there was an older teacher in
> class named Debbie, whose last name escapes me. I had subsequent contact
> with her on one occasion while researching the possibility of becoming a
> teacher. That was around 15 years ago. If anybody knows her, perhaps it
> might be a good idea to re-initiate some contact.
> Is anybody here familiar with the Springfield, Ohio metropolitan area from
> a blind perspective? What taxicab services are blind friendly? Does
> Springfield have a public transit system and a corresponding paratrransit
> system? Other than the Kroger's, which is apparently not far from where
> she will be staying, what other grocery stores/supermarkets are there?
>
> I need info as soon as possible. For faster access, you can call us. Our
> home number is, 937 293-2815. My mobile number is, 937 231-6119. BROOKE'S
> cell phone is 937 430-2273. She prefers to be called Hava. (Rhymes with
> lava.)
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Chaim
>
>
>
> Chaim B. Segal
> Customer Service Representative: Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio
>
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