For those of you folks who love the Wizard of Oz, this quote is the literal interpretation of Friday’s Outlaw Music Festival in Somerset, Wisconsin. This goes out to Live Nation and the Somerset Amphitheater for the embarrassing accessibility conditions. I know that outdoor music festivals in the summer are risky and you don’t know… Continue reading Somerset Amphitheater & the Outlaw Music Festival: “I’m MELTING!”
You can’t do a series with music lines as titles about travelling in England and not have this one by Queen. This is the Peak District and Dublin part of the trip and inspiration for the title is from “Don’t Stop Me Now" by Queen. And, yes, it was a good time! Trains in the United… Continue reading “Don’t stop me now”
I loved the public transportation in London. My parents had the Transportation for London TfL app and Google maps to figure out the best routes and for the most part, it all worked as expected. The trickiest parts were finding tube and train lines that were wheelchair accessible. Sometimes we had to go out of… Continue reading London calling
I love Mumford and Sons and there is a line in Hopeless Wanderer that is perfect for this post: “I will learn to love these skies I’m under.” This is a start of a quartet of posts about transportation in England and Ireland. This is the skies post. The next two posts will be related… Continue reading “Love these skies I’m under”
This is brilliant! Caregiver tickets for free! Personal Care Assistants or caregiver tickets to everything we went to from concerts to AFC Wimbledon to museums were free. This was also the case when we went to Toronto about 5 years ago. So, England, Ireland, and Canada have this figured out! We do NOT have it… Continue reading Voyage on – what worked well on my England travels
This line is from the song Falling Slowly from the movie, Once, which is one of my favourite movies set in Dublin, Ireland, where I just got back from. Some of my favourites in Dublin included pubs, buskers, and learning about Irish history in museums like the GPO Museum of the 1916 Easter Rising, EPIC… Continue reading “Raise your hopeful voice”
I love England! My favorite things so far have been experiencing AFC Wimbledon in person, going to the Birdy concert, and meandering through graveyards in the Peak District. Cheers! "Beware of a slow sudden death" Here are some of my favorites from graveyards in Eyam and Hope. In 1665, Eyam was struck by the Bubonic… Continue reading England is Awesome
I made it to London - my dream trip! Getting ready to go to see AFC Wimbledon match so this is a short post. Enjoy the pics of our sightseeing at St. Paul's Cathedral, meandering near Borough Market and Tower of London.
Ocean updates Just so you know, this book I have been working on for the last two years is a weird book to edit. It is fun to write though and I am on my last round of editing before I send it off to the first of two rounds of betas, maybe three. I… Continue reading writing\editing updates
The past week was pretty cool. As you know, I’m pretty passionate about raising my voice through meeting with elected officials, testifying at Minnesota House and Senate hearings on providing more accessible and affordable housing, and writing about my experiences living life as I know it and some of the accessibility challenges I drive into.… Continue reading Advocacy Week
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