by Linda Olson | Mar 6, 2020 | Linda Olson, San Diego Accessible Travel
AQUARIUM The Birch Aquarium is one of my favorite San Diego tourist spots. I like to think of it as the Goldilocks of Aquariums. Some are too big. Some are too small. Birch is just right. It hugs the side of a hill in La Jolla with magnificent views of the Scripps...
by Linda Olson | Feb 8, 2020 | Linda Olson, San Diego Accessible Travel
All eyes are on a man at the top of the grassy field. Next to him is a large pile of nylon and ropes. Leaning over, he shakes the ropes, jiggles them into an orderly looking collection, yanks the handful of lines and lo and behold, the pile of nylon starts to expand...
by Linda Olson | Jan 20, 2020 | Amputee, Exercise, Linda Olson, Parkinson's
No, that’s not a typo. I’m not trying to giggle my way into the New Year. I really want to jiggle. This all came about because of a three-week vacation to Ireland a couple of years ago. Midway through the trip, I realized that my Parkinson’s symptoms of painful...
by Linda Olson | Aug 27, 2019 | Linda Olson
I am addicted to bookstores. A place where I can sit and feast my eyes on a jungle of books. The bookstore adventure begins with splashes of color, then shapes—skinny, fat, tall or short. Books lying down or standing at attention. They jealously await my caress....
by Linda Olson | Jul 30, 2019 | Amputee, Linda Olson, Parkinson's, Speaker
The square, black and yellow boxes hide in a corner of our dining room. Relics of the pre-digital era, they contain Kodak slide carousels, those circular containers with 80 or 140 slots for 35 mm slides which are mounted upside down and backwards for projection...
by Linda Olson | Jun 7, 2019 | Linda Olson, Parkinson's, Travel
I’m just about the luckiest person around. When I get tired, I just pull my fake legs off and bribe my granddaughter, Sierra, to carry them. Her mom is more than happy to relinquish the job. The only problem is that Dave takes me seriously, deciding the top...
