they have "tanked chairs," Trisha.  The Problem is, we can't obtain them, because of Medicare's policy of "in home use only."   Any extreme chair has to be private;y funded.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:53:15 -0400
>From: Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: Re: Beach  SNIPPIT  
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Oh Meir,
>
>   I cracked up visualizing a tank track on a wheelchair - I couldn't figure out whether to put them on the sides or have someone perched on top. The ulitmate bully stopper - just flatten them. The picture of the track wheel at the site Ken sent was much tamer. Sigh.....
>
>                Trisha
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
>Of Meir Weiss
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 2:04 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
>
>
>
> like a bycycle
>
>TIRES  of various treads?  Or and Rubbers  ?
>
>And I guess a tire rim like those 
>
>Mobile  utility dune buggies? To shovel through sand?
>
>Tanks can do it in afganistan!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>sheesh@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Trisha Cummings
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 13:58
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Beach SNIPPIT
>
>Hi Meir,
>
>  Actually I was wondering about that - this summer I was able to go to Rehoboth
>for some beach time - I was admiring the nice boardwalk and off ramps - but I
>was wondering exactly how a non-mobile person would make it down to the water.
>Sand is a bear to walk in and I don't see how a chair would be able the sand. Do
>they have sand friendly chairs? - I envisioned a kind of motorized sand sled.
>Rehoboth seems much more accessible than Asseateague Island which is National
>Park. 
>
> 
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