Sep 13 2008
An evening out, by the numbers
I went out for a couple of beers with my good friend Alan tonight, and I thought I’d do a little counting to illustrate what going out for an evening in Europe can mean with a wheelchair in tow. I even brought a tape measure. Alan and I are both living and working as ESL teachers in Dusseldorf, the state capital of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and we chose to go out in his neighborhood, Bilk, to a bar called Piranha. I went by public transport, unaccompanied, in my Ti Lite TX, an ultra-light manual chair.
