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hi everyone. i have expanded on the route that i learned last week. i went from my house, to a house on scott street which is 2 or 3 blocks away. now, silver oak is horribly paved and has a terrible shoreline so it is very confusing if i dont pay close attension to what i am doing, but we went over the route a few times and now i have it down pat. man when GEB comes out this time, they will accept me right away because my mobility skills have much improved from the last time they were out here. i will keep everyone updated as to my progress with GEB.
good luck.....hope it all goes well
smiles. thanks. my mobility instructer is coming out on friday. we are going to go over the route again. only i am going to take him to scott street without any instruction from him.
good luck girl
smiiles. thanks jessica.
A true mobility test is to take a gps and walk a 1 to 2 mile route in a completely unformiliar area, with technology these days roat memorization of routes is pointless and the focus should be on using things like GPS while not getting killed by cars.
this was an unfamiliar route as i only had just moved here.
and btw it was a rather difficult route because i have never experienced traveling on roads with no sidewalks, broken pavement, and roads that severely needed repaving.
and anyway, only military gps's r truly accurate
doesn't the route have to have at least one stoplight as one of the requirements for getting in to a guide dog school?
Commercial systems will get within about 30 feet, which is good enough to get you to a particular building or to identify an intersection.
no. i asked geb and all that they require is one street crossing either controlled or not, and a knowledge of where you are going.
and i have a definite destination in mind when geb comes back out. i am going to take them from my apartment, to the first house on scott street and back. this requires me to cross midway road twice. midway road is an uncontrolled crossing.
oh and btw to the roman battle mask. this is a difficult route as far as the terrain is concerned, very uneven old extremely rocky and rough pavement and horrible shorelines on silver oak drive, as well as broken pavement just in the entrance of my complex.
Good going, good luck.
To the techy guys, (that's you Jared) what are you going to do when your batteries run out, call a sighted friend on your mobile phone? Oh yes, no batteries. The sighted friend is optional.
Bob
That's why you always cary an extra set of battaries around. Myne always run out, so I just replace them with a fresh set.
to blobby, oops i mean blbobby lol, thanks for the good luck wishes. this will be great when he comes out later on today. i will do this perfectly.
Me, I always carry an extra sighted friend around. I bought a good one in Mexico a couple of years ago: she doesn't eat much, and she makes a mean inchalata.
Bob
Remembering routes is always a good idea. The best mobility aid really lies between our ears. Its what we do and how we process the information we get that in my opinion makes the safest and most capable independent traveller. If you remember a route, including landmarks, then you'll know how to give directions to another person, and with those landmarks, you'll have a better clue of what hapens in the event of construction or how to maneuver around it. Good luck later today.
Lou
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i am proud to report that i did the route successfully wwithout any instruction from my instructer. my mobility instructer has cleared me. he gave me all of his information to give to guiding eyes because i asked him if he could be a reference, and his answer was an emphatic yes! so i will call guiding eyes back today to tell them that i am ready for them to come back out. oh i am so stoked!
Congratulations! Great news!
smiles. thanks so much!
Congratulations on that achievement Somanea. Continue working hard on the mobility.
i have expanded even more on that route to include 2 street crossings instead of one. there is a street that intersects scott street. the street is called seagrape and it is a 4-way stop controlled by a stopsign. stopsign crossings r easy. so now when geb comes back out, i am going to take them all the way to seagrape, cross seagrape, turn around and come back the reverse way.
the biggest danger in the route is crossing midway road.
Good job Somanea.
woooooooo! hell ya!
ok good we get it you could walk on the streets on your own! want a cookie? lol
oh good god. rude rude lol. i cant help bosting lol.
I think that's quite an achievement, especially with all the obsticals in the way. My mobility isn't that good, but it's largely my own fault for not practising etc. But I know that I'll have to improve it one of these days, especially if I want to move. Regardless of where I wind up, I'll eventually need it. I think it's important to make posts like this so that others can become inspired by the examples they set. While it may be simple for some, there are always other people who are just starting out with all of this who might need that extra push.
smiles. very very true.
oh and also. that is all that geb is looking for. they want to make sure that i can do safe cane travel. they want to see me walk a route that i am familiar with with at least 1 street crossing.
all i did was asked if you wanted a cookie for walking
yeah. cookies r good. rofl.
Why not apply for some sort of training, lcb perhaps, or blind inc., or CCb. I'ts a process, but well, worth it. Memorizing routs will be long days past once this is done.