[Travelandtourism] Member and non-member information and updates

[Cheryl Echevarria]

Roanna:

That is like saying you want to maneuver the Grand Canyon by yourself.

Some airports, because for those of us who travel a lot know the airport
well, meaning, when I come home to Macarthur Airport here on Long Island, it
isn't a big airport like JFK or LaGuardia.

If traveling to Orlando or O'Hare, or maybe an international airport I have
never been to before.

Like I said the TSA website has assistance for maneuvering the airport you
can call them up to 48 hours in advance of traveling.

This helps out a lot especially with getting through security etc.

The airport are big, some people are more adventurous, and if they just get
the right directions of where things are then they are fine.

Take the airport out of the equations.

Let's say you want to go from you home to the Store in town and you never
did it before. What do you do?  What I do is, is that I first ask my
husband, daughter, friend, etc. to take me there once or twice, and then I
do it myself with my cane, and then I take my guide dog, because if I don't
know where I am going, then how is my dog going to get there.

Airports are not the same animal, they are very big. So unless I am flying
into my small home airport which I just have to ask which way is the
elevator to go downstairs, then I know my way out.

But that took many years to say, hey I can do this. It also took a lot of
confidence, and knowing when to ask for help and when not to. That is the
point of independence, when to ask for assistance and when not to.

It is the same way with bus stations, large hotels, Disney World.

These are just some incidences.

But I will say is know your mobility skills, if you know only one way of
getting somewhere, is not good, you need to find other ways if there are
detours, which there are.

Hope this helps. Again, Roanna, you don't have to join. You just need to
participate.


Cheryl Echevarria, President
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roanna Bacchus [mailto:rbacchus228 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 11:35 AM
To: Cheryl Echevarria
Subject: RE: [Travelandtourism] Member and non-member information and
updates

I want to learn more about independent travel.  Whenever I go on a vacation
it's with my family.  I want to learn how to maneuver the airport without
assistance.