I'm up for it! Really would like to go back to England, Germany and all those countries I was privileged to live in for 10 years. Great wall of China yes yes yes! Wheelchair, are you funding this? JJoan
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 5:23 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] tv show Would love to see a season of world travels, crossing the globe in wheelchairs.... for the ultimate prize. Anyone else? Best Wishes In a message dated 7/7/2014 7:01:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I never gave a point of view on good or bad, just mentioned I watched a bit of it. Obviously 2 days would never give someone a real idea of life in a chair. Way to many things they never will know about. Plus I'm sure off camera they cheated. I'm sure at home they didn't stay in it. So many types of disabilities, and 99% of our issues are nothing to do with how hard it is to use public transportation. If that was our main concern, life might be a lot easier. It only shows how the laws regarding access are a bit lagging. Not criticizing your reply just expanding on my first post... (ha ha) Greg > These challenges, experiments, etc. may provide a brief glimpse > into what it's like to have a disability, i.e. mobility, blindness, > etc., but several days or even more can never simulate what it's > like for people with disabilities who know they will never recover > from them. The experimenters know they can always get out of the > chair or take off the blindfold. > > It's like suggesting that if someone spends a couple or more days > behind bars that they can appreciate what it's like to be in prison > serving a life sentence with no chance of parole. > > Not criticizing you or your post, Greg. Just offering a point of > view. > > > Steve - C4, 26 years > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:31 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just watched a English TV show (Celebrity Wheelchair Challenge) >> about 3 celebrities who have to live 2 days in a manual >> wheelchair and take a trip across country, taking buss, plane, >> taxi. It was pretty interesting.There was a little "pity party" >> going on, but not a lot. >> >> It was on Youtube. Looks like there were others also, like going >> blind, etc. >> > Greg
