Kathleen,

Way to go!  I had kind of a similar experience.  I was on my way to visit
a friend in Lancaster.  In California they have a transportation service
for disabled people called Access Service.  So I made a reservation.
They picked me up and dropped me off at a Metro-Link Station.  When I
made the reservation, they neglected to tell me that I was supposed to
wait for another Access van.  Needles to say, I got on the Metro-Link (I
wasn't supposed to though).  They dropped me off at a bus stop in Santa
Clarita (about half way to Lancaster).  By this time, I knew I did
something wrong.  Mind you, this was the first time I'd visited my
friend, so I had no clue as to how to get there.  So there I was in my
wheelchair at a bus stop in the middle of nowheresville without anyway to
call anyone, the pay phone was to high for me to reach.  Plus, I have a
speech impediment.  Here comes the bus, oh but the lift doesn't work.
They got another bus, but that lift didn't work either.  It really did
work, but I heard them say they forgot the key to the lift!  It all
worked out fine, they called me a cab and it took me right to my friends'
door.  All this to say, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger, way to
go ;o)!

Cindy C.

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> From: "Stephanie Thomas" <[log in to unmask]>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathleen Kleinmann [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 10:42 PM
> To: Stephanie & Bob
> Subject: Ride Greyhound
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>
> I had a wonderful ride on a Greyhound Bus from Harrisburg to
> Pittsburgh
> on May 19, 2000.
>
> I called on Tuesday for a ride on Friday.  Making the reservation
> was NOT
> a smooth process and left me with great doubt as to whether or not I
> would
> actually get a bus with a lift. To add a margin of safety, I made a
> special trip down to the bus station to physically buy a ticket the
> night
> before.
>
> Lo and behold, the bus actually DID have a lift on it!  There were
> two
> wheelchair sites, side by side.  It took a small army of about 10
> bus
> employees to figure out how to use the lift and tie down my
> wheelchair
> properly.  Due to the space required for my wheelchair, 6 regular
> seats
> were folded or otherwise unuseable.  However, the seats were still
> sold
> so
> passengers were forced to sit or stand in the aisle.
>
> But the driver was jolly and so were the passengers.  It was a new
> bus
> that was clean, bright, with beautiful windows all around.  It was a
> gorgeous ride through the heart of Pennsylvania.
>
> I wore my ADAPT tee shirt, of course.  Every half hour or so, I
> became
> overwhelmed with the full significance of what we have accomplished
> and I
> chanted in a whisper "The People United Will Never Be Defeated."
>
> It was a great day for a magnificent, VICTORIOUS ride.  Can't wait
> to do
> it
> again!
>
> Kathleen
>
>
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