The Travel Notes

Our ratings are... Fully Accessible - You tin access all of the attraction, amongst no problem, inwards whatever type of wheelchair. Mostly Accessible - You tin access almost of the attraction, in addition to all of the of import parts of it, amongst your wheelchair. Partially Accessible - You tin access a proficient bargain of the attraction only some parts are inaccessible in addition to some of import parts you'll miss. Inaccessible - Kind of speaks for itself, avoid if you're inwards a wheelchair. Here's Monaco... The Casino - Fully accessible. Accessible entrance it to the side of the primary entrance. Long pants, clothes shirt, in addition to jacket required to enter. Entrance fee charged. Royal Palace Square - Fully accessible. Get to the exceed from the Place 'd Arms past times taking the accessible bus. Get in that place earlier 11am if you lot desire to run into the changing of the guard. Royal Neighborhood - Mostly accessible. T...

It's chop-chop becoming extinct hither inwards California and, equally California goes hence does the residuum of the country, await for a plastic pocketbook ban inwards your roughly future, too. While I empathize the reasonings behind the bans together with the environmental ramifications of keeping them around, I volition immature adult woman their extreme utility. I produce induce got to tell that I never mail a plastic pocketbook to a landfill or litter the roadside alongside it. It's also valuable.  Instead, I role it until at that spot is no longer whatever life left to it, hence mail it off to recycle. Far from but beingness the pocketbook the groceries come upward domicile in, that is but the get-go of the uses this pocketbook volition endure. Leftovers inwards Glad bowls instruct taken to function inwards them for lunch.  I business our hanging institute baskets alongside them to conserved water. Shipping boxes instruct lined alongside wadded upw...

There’s equally good many to count, really. Maybe millions. Whenever I convey it up, I’m met amongst either shuddering disgust or local pride. Here inwards this narrow alley, in that place is non ane iota of wall infinite that is non covered upwardly amongst a used wad of gum. This colorful fiesta of chicle in addition to spit is Bubblegum Alley, where locals conduct maintain been sticking their paste on the wall since World War II. Welcome to San Luis Obispo. Watch the Video! The alley tin serve equally a metaphor. Halfway betwixt Los Angeles in addition to San Francisco simply doing its ain thing, this pretty college town lives inwards some other California…the ane non defined yesteryear large cities. Rather, it’s coastal, green, in addition to laid-back. While many people coming from L.A. conduct maintain the coastal road upwardly Highway 101 through Ventura, Santa Barbara, in addition to Santa Maria; our road takes us over the hills from t...

  While nosotros had fun inward Baja, the bumpy dirt roads to the beach weren't to variety to our wheelchair lift.  Not long afterward nosotros returned home, it began to brand all sorts of awful noises before quitting altogether.  The local mobility dealer said they could gear upwards it merely they had to lodge parts as well as nosotros had to aspect (it would eventually accept over iii weeks). Being stuck inward the trouble solid is no adventure, fifty-fifty for a homebody similar Tim.  The entirely decent eatery inside walking distance to our trouble solid is a pizza parlor (which nosotros walked to the get-go week) merely afterward two weeks, amongst cabin fever setting inward as well as our anniversary appointment arriving, nosotros had to create something. Consulting our local motorcoach company's spider web page, nosotros found that the draw past times our trouble solid would easily accept us to Pasadena or Claremont, both fun places to kill time...

Note: this storey was originally written inwards 2002.  I've tried to update the data for 2010. Part 1 Here Day iv Today, nosotros desire to encounter the ocean. From Pasadena, we take the Gold Line to Union Station.  Take the Red or Purple Line to seventh together with Flower St.  Transfer to a southbound Blue Line prepare to Long Beach. At the halt of the Blue Line inwards Pine Square, nosotros board a costless shuttle that takes us to the Aquarium of the Pacific (from Monrovia, lead hold the 187 autobus to the Sierra Madre Villa station of the aureate line; from Claremont lead hold the Metrolink prepare westbound to Union Station) Union Station It's nice. We encounter enough of sharks, rays, together with sentry a sea Panthera leo show. You tin walk underwater inwards a coral reef, encounter divers feeding the fish, together with pet lorikeets inwards an outdoor aviary. A block away is Shoreline Village (and the Long Beach Convention Ce...

Note: This story was originally written inwards 2002...I've tried to update the data to 2010 where applicable. This is a really depression fundamental trip, yet it is connected really good alongside some really major tourist destinations. It's served past times excellent, accessible world transportation yet yous volition go difficult pressed to honour other tourists spell you're here. You'll honour yourself on peradventure the most famous...and fabled...highway on world but yous won't experience you're at a tourist mecca. Route 66 of course of didactics is that fabled road to California from Chicago made famous past times the likes of John Steinbeck as well as Bobby Troup. Although the highway was decommissioned, hundreds of miles of it nonetheless exist. One stretch that almost no i talks close whatever to a greater extent than is the piece of work that winds its agency though San Bernardino County into the San Gabriel Valley inwards Southern Calif...

Here is an one-time study on 1 of our favorite beach destinations, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  Yes, the report's been hither earlier but we've added a whole bunch of novel pictures.  Plus something else... Our kickoff trip to Puerto Vallarta was inwards 1991. We liked it so much, nosotros pretty much came every yr during the 90's, dorsum when Tim was petty plenty to deport as well as teach over all those stairs. On our 2nd trip inwards 1992, I borrowed my dad's VHS camcorder. Recently, I dug out the one-time VHS tape, digitized it, as well as edited downward xc minutes worth of video downward to 10 minutes. 23 years ago, when Tim was but a wee lad of 5, nosotros took this video downward inwards Puerto Vallarta. I apologize for the pitiful audio, but it makes a neat fourth dimension capsule of a fourth dimension we'd go downward to this beautiful destination. Watch the Video! Enjoy, as well as so yous tin read the one-time report, below,...