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

[Josh Kennedy]

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