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Editorial Review :
This authoritative guide, written by leading expert in accessible travel, Candy Harrington, highlights vacation destinations for disabled travelers. Containing chapters organized by vacation style, this guide allows the traveler to tailor their holiday to their own specifications. Whether the reader desires an exciting road trip, a tranquil cruise, family fun, or an adventure steeped in history, this guide details over 101 cities, national parks, and tourist attractions around the United States that fit the bill. Also included is a section of the author’s favorite activities, called Candy’s Picks. The guide describes the accessibility of each location, allowing the reader to plan a trip that best fits their specific needs. As Candy writes, “There’s a world of travel choices out there for wheelers and slow walkers. And this book contains many of those choices; along with updated resources, information and access details to make them a reality.”
Customer Review :
101 accessible vacations
It arrived in decent shape and with fair promptness. A better description of the emphasis of the book would have aided selection.
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Gives me new hope!
As a person struggling with PPMS (primary progressive multiple sclerosis), I was depressed by what I thought was the reality that I would not be able to travel. Not so! This book makes visiting all the places I've wanted to see doable. Thanks Candy Harrington for this book and your enabling outlook on travel.
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Lots of Great Information
If you like to travel and are challenged physically, this book is well worth adding to your library. Each of the 101 vacation chapters is full of information that is otherwise hard to find. Any one such item is worth the price of the book. That said, only about 3 pages are devoted to each vacation, so don't expect it to be complete. It's a great start to begin further research or a great resource to add knowledge about a place (or a place nearby) that you're already planning to go to. The book is organized by activity rather than geographically and the table of contents uses chapter titles that often don't tell you the geographic location of the vacation. I found it helpful to write the locations in the table of contents for later reference.
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Travel Agents Need This Book
101 ACCESSIBLE VACATIONS BY CANDY B. HARRINGTON is a practical and innovative travel guidebook for the physically challenged traveler. Candy is well known in the field of accessible travel and is the editor of Emerging Horizons Magazine. She discusses the previously held theory that all disabled travelers should go to Disney World for vacations because it is know for being well planned for the handicapped tourist. But not everyone likes theme parks, so there must be many alternatives, of which most travel agents are unaware. In this book she tells of many, many different choices for ideal holidays for anyone who has difficulty traveling. She details holidays of every kind in places in many states and in several international destinations. This is a wonderful book for any handicapped traveler and for all travel agents.
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Question : What is the usual price range for an electriconically powered wheelchair
The one where the person sitting in the chair can move it around with a little joystick thing How much would those normally cost And where do they sell them
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They can cost anywhere from 1,000 to 20,0000. It depends on what you are looking for. A Jazzy goes for 6,000, that has the hand control. You can buy a power wheelchair at most Home Health Equipment stores. Also online.
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Question : 24 volt power supply for testing old wheelchair motors
I am looking for recommendations on what kind of power supply I need to use for testing DC motors I removed from old wheelchairs. They will be used for robotics projects but I need to test projects using a stable source of power (not batteries). If you have any experience in this and have any suggestions it would help. Thanks I am currently looking at this supply. Any issues with 3 amps instead of 5 Batteries are not feasible at this stage. I know there are lots of different choices out there, which is why I am asking for suggestions. http://www.powersupplydepot.com/productview.aspproduct=14605+PS
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Take two old car automotive chargers and connect them in series. Don't use a newer one with fancy regulators or LEDs on the front. A typical 24 motor in a wheel chair will draw more than 5 amps under load. You said you wanted a stable supply, so make some initial tests with an ammeter and them make sure the supply is good for at least two times the average load. The free running load will teach you very little. Try using a 20 amp fuse from the hardware store for protection until you get he entire circuit going. Then a good bet is the circuit breakers used in Cars. JC Whitney has a very useful $10 ammeter that's used to test alternators, so you can tell how much load you are putting on the supply. Start with 10 gage wires. Electric wheelchairs typically go 8 mph max and have 12" dia pneumatic tires mounted directly to the output shaft of the gearbox. Good links can be found at usfirst.org and ifirobotics.com, also for wheelchair oriented stuff, National Power Chair. Charlie Affel
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