Re: Training Centers
At scotf: I had plenty of time over breaks, or when I wasn't in class, to get mobility lessons on campus, but they were specific to campus, and dependant on what mobility I already had. Even then, most of the routes I learned were more like tips than anything; I effectively rewrote my entire mental map of the campus after two years when I decided "Screw it" and went outside with a tape-recorder (I don't remember if I even brought my cane for that... I got lost at one point because I ran out of any territory I was familiar with to get a good recording of a passing train. I still managed to get back before I ran out of tape, somehow (it's a small campus).).
It also hurt that ESVI dissolved right around the time I enrolled, and getting a mobility instructor to help became a matter of me contacting one. And it turned out that the email address I gave my instructor got eaten when my webhost redid their email system (the redoing made it inaccessible, in add
ition to destroying most of the mailboxes I'd delegated to different functions). She did give my brailist a few useful tips on mobility instruction, and he was much easier to access, so there's that.
If you can get in contact with a local organization that knows what they're talking about, or local disability services (here it's called Department of Services for the Blind, and is an extension of DHS), that might be a good place to start, unless you've tried this and everyone was unhelpful, in which case... blah, I might consider consulting one of the people I previously mentioned to see if they can come up with anything (depends on where you live).
At Camlorn:
(It was coyotes, actually, but close enough. )
I'm not fond of the idea of moving elsewhere, though I won't deny that it has its advantages (this can be one o
f the top ten US towns for Cheapskates all it wants; it's still an iffy place to live if you aren't a particular type of person). I have property with a beat-up mobile home (You might as well call it Thesius's Trailer by the time I get it livable), which is conveniently within walking distance of a bus stop (On basically the only path by foot I could manage in this town, by some voodoo magic).
The public transit here is... minimalist. The government said they needed it, so they commissioned some buses, wrote some regulations to keep their work to a minimum, and called it an "economical transit system". Based on my research (which may or may not be accurate, since this state doesn't seem to believe in keeping its online information up to date), I could in theory access the mall, Wal-mart and ... city hall? from that property. I'd still need to learn a good deal (I mean, I can get to the parking lot across the street from the bus stop. I might e
ven be able to find my way to the bus by scurrying across the street and hiding by a sign or something until I hear an idling diesel engine. I could even figure out when it's stopping somewhere useful. I would be pretty much stuck as soon as I step off the bus, though. And how would I even find what I'm looking for in a store without help and/or a super iPhone?).
This doesn't account for all the places not on the bus routes, though. Even in the unlikely event that I wind up at a place that uses sidewalks intelligently (those appear to be scarce, here), I'd need to tell Home Depot from Radio Shack from Shoe Carnival from Peer1. (... those might have been bad examples. Shoe Carnival smells like shoes, and hardware stores are kinda obvious, especially at the sidewalk level. But I think you get the idea.)
Going back to school is probably not a bad idea. Or at least, it wouldn't be if I wasn't already in $80000 of debt from the last time I botched that.
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