[nagdu] Traveling Advice

[Susan Jones]

Last week, someone, without my permission, put a note in that I needed
assistance when arriving in Chicago.
I didn't; all I needed was to be pointed in the proper direction.
Somebody took me to a golf card, and I tried to be polite, and sat and
waited, and waited, and waited.
After about five minutes of that, (the driver was gone)  I said to the other
passenger, "I need to be someplace at a certain time.  I'm ditching."  And
off Rhoda and I went, to find Baggage Claim.



-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie J
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:07 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Traveling Advice

I don't give advance notice of my blindness or my guide dog unless I will
need some accommodation related to one or the other.  Like if I am going to
a conference and I need materials emailed to me in advance I will of course
tell them that I'm blind.  I have never informed a hotel ahead of time.  I
haven't given advanced notice when flying either, but when I got to the
first airport they made some sort of note in the computer, changed my
seating and set up someone to meet me at each gate.  I don't think I would
have minded so much if this had actually been of help, but it turned out to
be a gigantic disaster.

I think the only way to figure out what works for you and what doesn't is to

just try out different things and see what happens.   some people choose the

advance notice option and some don't, I say if it works for you then it's
the right choice for you.

Julie



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