Category: Travel Blog
Why I Always Book the Early Flight (and Why You Should This Holiday Season)
If you’ve read my travel tips before, you know I’m a big fan of the early flight. I mean really early, the kind of flight that makes your alarm clock question your life choices. It’s not glamorous, but it’s one of my favorite travel hacks. And this year, with theRead More …
Beyond the High Score: How I Rebuilt My Life After Gaming Addiction
It’s strange how something as simple as sound can define your life. For some people, it’s the rhythm of waves, the hum of a familiar street, or the voices of family echoing through a childhood home. For me, it was the sound of a quarter clinking into an arcade slotRead More …
New Article: Three Questions with a Blind Traveler – Inappropriate Memes Explained
We’ve all seen them—those crude memes about blindness that pop up online. While some may laugh, others genuinely wonder about the questions behind them. Our latest Three Questions with a Blind Traveler article takes on three of the most common: Who picks up guide dog poo? How do blind peopleRead More …
Don’t Pack That! TSA’s New Rules for Cordless Hair Tools
Holiday travel season is right around the corner, and as always, new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) updates can add confusion to an already stressful process. One of the latest changes may not affect a large percentage of blind or low vision travelers, but it’s worth knowing so you’re not caughtRead More …
A Bright Idea: Getting Your Server’s Attention Without Waving Your Arms Around
Let’s talk about something simple that can drive blind and low vision travelers quietly bonkers: getting a server’s attention in a restaurant. Now, if you’re sighted (or more appropriately, a sighted ally), you might take this for granted. You see your server, they make eye contact, you give them theRead More …
Summer Travel Vibes & Staying Ahead
Hey there, fellow traveler! Can you feel the buzz? Summer 2025 is rolling in, and airports are humming with excited vacationers, families on road-trips-in-the-sky, and all of us chasing adventures under the warm rays of the season. As a blind or low-vision traveler, each sunny departure brings that familiar thrill…Read More …
Moab for Blind Travelers – Where the Rocks Have Personality
Who needs sweeping vistas when the rocks are whispering your name? Seriously, if you’ve never been hugged by a warm slab of sunbaked sandstone, you haven’t really lived. Moab, Utah, is one of those places that proves beauty doesn’t require eyesight—just a sense of curiosity, a sturdy pair of shoes,Read More …
Hotel Hacks for Blind and Low Vision Travelers
Stepping into a fresh hotel room as a blind traveler can feel like arriving at a mini adventure destination. The carpet’s texture changes at the doorway, the AC unit hums softly from somewhere above, and your guide dog’s ears perk up at the new environment. With my guide dog FaunaRead More …
Power Banks, Batteries, and Boarding Passes: What You Really Need to Know Before Flying This Year
Let’s talk about something that’s going to affect just about every traveler hitting the skies in 2025—and especially those of us who travel blind or low vision and like to stay powered up for the journey. There have been some recent updates from our friends at the TSA (and theRead More …
Getting Lost On Purpose: Why Blind Travelers Should Wander More
I used to plan every step of a trip like a general preparing for war. Schedules. Maps. Backup maps for the backup maps, extra phone batteries, extra white cane in case Fauna got sick, you name it, I brought it with me. In my early days of traveling blind, IRead More …