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Posted by Your Guide on April 25, 2006 4:13 PM

And speaking of Latin American travel, check this story out:

WHEN I SET OFF on a three-country tour of South America with my friend Pat, I didn't know exactly what to expect, and the travel agent was downright discouraging.

That's because Pat is in a wheelchair.

"Consider yourself lucky" just to find a handicapped-adapted hotel room "in that part of the world," our agent e-mailed us not once but twice before our departure.

We had reasons not to take his warnings very seriously. In the years since a car crash left her paraplegic, Pat has traveled the globe alone and visited places —including the jungles of Cambodia — that would seem remote to many able-bodied tourists.

This lady is a superhero.



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