Questions for people who are well travelled, would you be ok traveling with someone in the group who is a wheelchair user?
I became disabled at 19. Prior to becoming disabled I had flown once and it was pre 9/11. After becoming disabled, I've only traveled by plane twice post 9/11 once in 2012 and once in 2018. Both were for family funerals. I've never gone any vacations mainly due to finances, (paying off student loans, paying for things related to my disability, kids from my first marriage). I got remarried last year. My wife is very well travelled and for a long time, she and a group of 5 other friends go on an annual trip. They didn't travel for a couple of years due to covid. Their trips have been both domestically and overseas.
Anyway, my wife has convinced me to go on a trip with her and her friends to Hawaii in November. I'm nervous because for a few reasons one being that I'm not well travelled like my wife and her friends. I'm pretty much a dumb uncultured hick compared to them. Using a wheelchair is still difficult despite accessible sights, transit, hotels. There will be activities that I won't be to be be involved and I'm fine with that.
However, I worry about my wife's friends feeling dragged down by me due to the wheelchair and also just me being uncultured and not well travelled. I'm curious if well travelled people would be ok with someone like being in their travel group
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