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A busted scooter leaves me in the lurch

Posted on October 16, 2023October 15, 2023

My mobility scooter quit on me the other day. I can walk 100 feet or so using a pair of canes, but my wheels are usually my legs. So when I turned the key and discovered those “legs” were powerless, I was stuck. This breakdown couldn’t have happened at a worse time. My wife, Laura, had been prepping for a medical procedure, the one where the prep is worse than…Continue Reading

Scooter and Wheelchair Damage Tracked by US Airlines

Posted on January 21, 2019January 20, 2019

It’s happened to me and, if you fly with a scooter or a wheelchair, I bet it’s happened to you, too: a busted or missing set of wheels on arrival. On a flight from Washington, D.C., to Venice, my scooter went to Copenhagen. On a flight from Baltimore to St. Kitts, I was happy to see my scooter appear at the cabin door. But where was the back of its…Continue Reading

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