This is a service and information only website. Nothing is for sale. We share what we have learned in our free, experienced-based ebook, "Disabled Travelers Guide to the World".

We know, by experience, the difficulties you will encounter when you travel with disabilities. We have already found great solutions and have answers to most of the questions you want to ask, like, "Can I get my wheelchair through the bathroom doors? Can I get on the train? What can I do about stairs? What will I find when...? "

We hope to inspire you by our successes and to motivate you to travel on your own. In our separate e-book, Disabled Travelers Guide to the World, we will show and tell you the details of how you can put yourself in this picture of the Taj Mahal in exotic India, get on an African safari, or tour across Europe.

Our book is full of great shots- pictures you will be able to take with yourself front and center- photos and memories to fill your own albums.

When we first started to travel, the travel agents didn't even want to talk with us. The instant you say words like "physically challenged", "wheelchair", or "disabled", hotel clerks click off. People who work the Excursion Desks of cruise lines told us we couldn't do this or that excursion. If we had listened to them, we wouldn't have gone anywhere!

They mean well, but they just don't know very much. They have no idea of what skills you have developed to overcome disability, or how much your desire can compensate and help you overcome challenges you may run into.

Travel companies and cruise lines have recently come to realize that physically challenged people spend the same kind of money as everyone else, and they want some of it. So they are less patronizing, though still basically clueless.

The industry finally has companies, councilors, and packages for the challenged, but Nancy and I have found most of their "disabled travel experts" don't know half the practical inside information we have in our book. They simply have not been where we have- for as long as we have.

You can download the entire free book, Disabled Travelers Guide and learn lots of tips and little known ways to get what you want. Lots of information entirely separate from what is on this website.

One of the most valuable things you will learn is how to turn the 'nay sayers' around. You know- all your well-meaning friends, co-workers, and anyone else who discourages you from traveling, or who tells you "You can't do that!" In Chapter 5, Just Say No,  you will learn exactly how to do it.

"You can't do that!"

Nancy is the first woman in a wheelchair to be at Wilde Point, the exact spot in the Antarctic where the famous Shackelton Expedition was rescued in 1916. Would you imagine someone in a wheelchair could land in Antarctica and play among the penguins? No one else could imagine it, either.

We refused to let "them" tell us we could not go. We found a way to get on the Seventh Continent, and the photos on this site show you some of what you will see and what to expect should you decide to go. Antarctica is awesome! Go ahead. Click on Antarctica    You won't believe what you'll see.

"I want to get on the Great Wall of China"

Would you like to go to China, but think it's too tough? Before we went to China the first time, I argued for a half an hour on the phone with the tourism officials there. "Your wife in wheelchair?" they said. "No way. She cannot do. We won't allow."  Click. They hung up on me.

Guess what?  We didn't take "No" from them, either:

It took me, our guide, the driver, a crowbar and two Red Army officers and their rifles, but we got Nan up on the Great Wall. More pictures and the description telling you exactly how we did it is in the Disabled Travelers Guide to the World.

How we accomplished this is described in Chapter 9, 'Stairways to Paradise'. Learn how you, too, can get onto the only structure on Earth visible from outer space. If you prefer, you can read the book online- no registration or personal information is needed. If you prefer, you can download it for free and keep for future reference. Again, no registration or personal information will be captured.

Do You Like to Shop?

In our Western world, one mall is the same as the next. Same shops. Same merchandise. But in the village markets, souks, and bazaars of the world, all that is different, intriguing, exotic, even excitingly dangerous. Like this market...

A seller of forbidden tiger skins at the fabled Golden Triangle, Myanmar (Burma). I could have been thrown in jail for taking this picture, but it was too tempting not to try.

In certain parts of the world, there are markets where anything you can imagine is for sale- at a price. This is one such place. It is illegal to sell the skins of endangered animals, and the repressive government here isn't too happy about tourists taking pictures like this one!

The merchant in Burma told us he would sell us the tiger skin hanging directly above him for $450 US, cash. Just for the fun of it, I haggled with him awhile, and got to the point where we could have bought it for about $75.00. Of course, I do not know what it would have cost to bribe the officials to let me out of jail after they arrested me. "No matter", the merchant assured me, "Such things never happen". Riiiiight!

Want to learn the art of bargaining at the street fairs, souks and bazaars? Read Chapter 12 of The Disabled Travelers Guide called "About Bargaining and Negotiating". In the book are more great photos of such places as the souks in fabulous Dubai, U.A.E., and the bazaars of Istanbul and Marrakech.

It's really great fun. And once you get the hang of it, you'll find bargaining is an adventure in itself, and can be as enjoyable as whatever it is you buy. Don't be afraid to try it, because saving all that money is a powerful incentive, and gives you that much more money to buy gifts for the grand kids or whomever.

By the way, in case you are curious, we did not buy the tiger skin hanging in the picture. We're not into doing things that are illegal, and certainly we would not do anything that would foster the killing of endangered animals. But being in that market, in the dangerous, surreal Golden Triangle (Burma, Thailand, Laos) was an unbelievable experience.

About Our Free Book

"The Disabled Travelers Guide to the World"

It contains much information not available on this web pages, and many more pictures to explain and help you understand how to solve the problems you are going to encounter as you travel the globe.

Please note the Guide is available at no cost or obligation. It focuses on situations you are going to run into that could potentially derail your trip. We emphasizes solutions that are possible and practical. There is a good bit of “How to advice”, such as Chapter 8: How to hire tour guides. In Chapter 10, there are some "turning lemons into lemonade suggestions for how to get room upgrades.

The Disabled Travelers Guide presents some important, specific travel plans and strategies that will permit you to squeeze every last ounce of pleasure and enjoyment from your own adventures.

One last thing.

When you hear something is "FREE", you automatically think there's a catch. Not this time! There is no catch to this, you don't have to register, and nobody is going to take down your personal information or try to contact you. But it is important you know why we are doing this.

Nancy writes: " After my strokes, there were many days I could only lay in bed and think 'what is going to happen to me? Am I better off dead? Am I ever going to be able to do anything meaningful with my life again?'"

Then, years later while in the Antarctic, Nancy figured out the "reason" she had strokes in the first place: "It was to provide an example of determination to others as unsure and confused as I was. To encourage and give hope to those people overwhelmed by physical limitations and disabilities."

"To my husband and me, it is more important that you and other physically challenged people benefit from what we know than it is for us to get your money. It is a blessing to be able to share what we have learned with others, and besides, it is just the right thing to do."

The Americans with Disabilities Act became law shortly after Nancy had her strokes. Our lives have been made much easier by the outstanding efforts of those brave people who went before us. Following their example, we want to make your life easier, too, if we can. We hope our website and e-book inspire you to make your travel dreams come true.

Click here to download our free
"The Disabled Travelers Guide"

or click on the picture to read the book online.

Our best wishes,

Nancy and Nate Berger

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