For the disabled traveler

http://www.gimponthego.com

http://www.disabledtravelers.com

I haven't done much traveling recently, though we'll be taking a road trip in August. However, when dealing with any government building these days, you have to do the x-ray the belongings and walk through the metal detector routine.

Well, I use a manual wheelchair. I hope to be upgrading to a power chair soon, but Medicaid is currently osed-hay. At any rate, in either case, they have me go around the metal detector, which goes off anyway, and then proceed to use a wand.

While I'm sitting on a pile of metal.

And they always act as if they're afraid they'll break me. I'm big enough to need a bariatric wheelchair; it's not like I'm a fragile flower. Hell, half the time people call me "sir." But I'm treated so gingerly by folks at security checkpoints that I worry about their ability to actually check for dangers should someone use a chair to hide a weapon of some sort.