Traveling Cherrie

After a short drive from Rockford, and a brief pinic stop along the way to enjoy our leftover pizza, we're staying in Indianapolis for a few days. Not only is Indianapolis the capitol of Indiana, but it was also chosen as America's Most Accessible City this year. It's pretty famous for the big Indianapolis 500 race, but it also has a lot of fun cultural attractions, a great downtown area and some very accessible tourist attractions.

Of course Cherrie has a few favorites.

We spent the past few days exploring Rockford, Illinois; which is located about halfway between Chicago and Galena. Can you find it on the map?

And although there are lots of cultural attractions for adults to enjoy in the "Queen City of the Prairie", there are also many fun things for kids to do there. Cherrie had fun exploring them all, and we're pleased to say that even the folks at the historic attractions made things as accessible as possible for wheelchair-users.

There's a reason that Nebraska is known as the Cornhusker State - they grow a lot of corn there. So after driving by mile after mile of cornfields, we decided to hop off the highway and take a closer look. We stopped by a cornfield in back of an old cemetery and let Cherrie wheel around and explore it a bit. It was very level - most of Nebraska is - so she had no problems at all wheeling around.

After a long drive and an overnight in Wendover, Utah, we hit the Bonneville Salt Flats this morning. Cherrie had fun giving her wheelchair a test drive on the same turf where the world land speed record was set.

Well, we're putting the finishing touches on our road trip, so I thought I'd sit down with Cherrie and go over our plans. After all, half the fun of any trip is planning for it.

Don't get excited, we're not adopting a human child or even another feathered friend. We don't have the stamina for the former and we already have enough of the latter! Instead we are adopting a teddy bear. Yes, I said a teddy bear; more specifically one of SATW's Traveling Teddies.