The time has come to celebrate the end of 2010 and the birth of 2011. It’s going to be a big year for me–I’m starting The Imperfect Traveler as a corporation, launching The Imperfect Traveler’s Guide to Traveling With Pain, writing new books for the series, doing speaking engagements about traveling with hidden disabilities…and of [...]
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Helping a Disabled Person to Travel
Posted in Accessible Travel Web Sites, Air Travel, Packing and Preparing, tagged disability travel information, Disability.gov blog, TSA guidelines on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I ran across this pretty awesome blog post on the Disability.gov web site today: Coming Home: Travel and Long Distance Caregivers First off, I didn’t know that Disability.gov had a blog. Second, this post provides some awesome information, including the web site of an organization that can help sick folks with air travel costs for [...]
Traveling Companions: What They Need to Know
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged accessible travel, disability travel companions, helping a traveler with a disability, travel chronic pain, travel with pain on November 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Based on some of the great comments that came out of the “Ouch: 3 Trips to Avoid” post, it seems like a good time to take a post to talk about the unhonored and unsung members of the hiddenly disabled travel community–the traveling companions. Hey guys! We love you, and many of us couldn’t do [...]
Packing a 2-Week Bag…With Pain
Posted in Packing and Preparing, Travel Tips, tagged chronic pain travel packing, disability packing for travel, packing, packing list, travel packing on August 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Having blogged in praise of checking luggage, now it’s time to crack open my bags and let y’all take a look around. Here’s my formula for packing for a two-week trip. It works for plane trips, train trips, bus trips, and car trips. I’ve never taken a two-week boat trip, but I’d trust my method [...]
Jeans With Pain
Posted in Packing and Preparing, tagged clothes travel, disabled travel jeans, disabled travel womens clothing, jeans chronic pain, jeans cystitis, jeans endometriosis on April 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
By reader request, here’s a topic that’s plagued me for years: jeans. I’m with you, Tam–I miss jeans! This ubiquitous item of Western apparel went from super-comfy to super-excruciating as my pelvic pain grew. Anyone with chronic pain anywhere between the belly button and the kneecap likely feels my riveted-denim pain. Traveling just makes it worse–I [...]
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