[nfb-talk] Portland NET (CERT) training: Getting there

[T. Joseph Carter]

Thanks guys!  Turns out that the interchange was easy enough to do 
walking on the grass.  Where it breaks down is that once you get on 
to 122nd, there’s about 150 feet where you have to walk on the 
shoulder of the road, back to the traffic, in a bike lane.  The 
foliage is overgrown and you cannot stay in the bike lane because of 
it.

Garden shears and gloves would’ve made short work of it, but wearing 
a safety high-vis vest would probably be a good idea.

I had the safety vest and the gloves, but the best I could’ve done 
was hack at it with a Leatherman.  Yes, I have to admit it, I was 
unprepared.  *grin*

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:02:28PM -0400, Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] wrote:
>Me too!  You sure are a brave man!
>
>Terry Powers
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>Joseph,
>
>Good luck and prayers to you!
>
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>Gloria Whipple
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>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
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>So it turns out that I have another event that meets at the same building that hosts Portland's NET training I'll be taking this fall.
>The information when I signed up was that there wasn't an immediate bus stop in front of the place.  No worries, a few blocks of walking are no big deal to me, right?
>
>Turns out that the nearest intersecting streets for the place are very heavily trafficked.  So much in fact that there's an overpass from one to the other.  The streets move at a high speed, and there is no sidewalk, particularly at the circular connection ramps.
>
>I've been told that it's "not safe for a blind person on foot", and, "it'd be difficult even for a sighted person."
>
>You all know me well enough to know my reaction to that.  I have done a little recon using Google Street View (which is cheating I know), but I see how it can be done.  Not easily, but done.  Of course, it'll be mid afternoon, with the sun right in my face.  I might as well be wearing a sleepshade for all the good my eyes are gonna do me out there!  In fact I might, it'll be less uncomfortable!  I still have mine from the Colorado Center.  *grin*
>
>If I don't report back this evening, my plan failed catastrophically and there's no need to worry about how I'm going to do it on Saturdays for NET training anymore.  So I'll ask that you wish me success and plenty of divine grace, because I might need it!
>
>Joseph - KF7QZC
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