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Sticks and Wheels:
by Ellen Frank
If your mobility is compromised and you want to cool off on a hot Sunshine Coast day, how will you know where to find an accessible beach? What local facilities are designed to allow everyone equal enjoyment? Help is at hand with Sticks and Wheels: A Guide to Accessible Travel on the Lower Sunshine Coast. Now, Sunshine Coast visitors and residents can easily locate accessible recreation, restaurants, accommodations, shopping, and cultural facilities. “Sticks and Wheels isn’t just for people with mobility disabilities, like me,” says Ellen Frank, Gibsons author and travel agent on wheels. “This new book is aimed at a wide range of people. Slow walkers and their friends and moms with strollers will appreciate it as much as full-time wheelchair users.” The inspiration for the book was born on a hot summer day three years ago when Ellen, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a variety of mobility aids, went looking for an accessible Sunshine Coast beach. She consulted tourist information, library databases and the Internet to no avail, so she felt it was time to write this book. Drawing on her background as a travel consultant, Ellen published a comprehensive guide that will enable visitors and residents with mobility concerns to have a great time on the Sunshine Coast - without facing unnecessary barriers. The timing of Sticks and Wheels couldn’t be better, with the 2010 Olympic games and the Paralympics about to unfold in Whistler/Vancouver. The Sunshine Coast will welcome all members of this international community, with Sticks and Wheels – the guide to accessible travel.
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