In my office and and on this website there are pictures from trips my wife and I have taken all over the world. We have been on all seven continents and in more countries than I can name without an atlas.

The picture of the little bear cubs above was taken on just such a trip - to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada in 2004 to see the Polar bear migration.

The comment I hear most often from my patients is, "You should write a book about where you've been, what you've seen and what you've learned." So, I have.

The decision to actually do the book came the second day Nancy and I visited the Taj Mahal, that magnificent monument built by a bereaved sultan for his queen who died in childbirth. It is in Agra, India, a little south of Dehli.

Most readers know my wife is in a wheelchair, having survived a series of strokes many years ago. We have refused to let the fact that she is physically challenged keep us from enjoying life to the fullest, and one of the things we both enjoy most is traveling.

When we went to see the Taj Mahal, our guide told us that nearly 4 million people visit the Taj each year, yet during the two days we were there, we did not see one other person in a wheelchair. Not one.

In thinking about it more, I realized this was usually the case - in Thailand, China, Africa - nearly everywhere we have been, we seldom see others in wheelchairs. And we know why: because travel is hard enough for the fully abled. For the disabled, it is simply too much to handle.

And then we discovered the solution - we already knew everything the physically challenged traveler needed to know to simplify travel and make it easy. We knew because we had already "been there; done that" in a wheelchair.

We already knew how to arrange trips so we got maximum knowledge and enjoyment from them. We already knew how to bargain in the souks and markets like the natives do. We already knew how to obtain low cost or no cost upgrades at hotels. We already knew...

Then we realized if we shared this knowledge, more physically challenged people could enjoy the world as we do, because being DIS-abled does not mean being UN-abled!

As I started to write the book, it was clear the knowledge and experience gained from years of travel was also extremely valuable to anyone who travels, not just the physically challenged.

There is more to know, but this website is about holistic health, so we have given the book a site of it's own. If you are interested, please visit that site, DisabledTravelersGuide.com

Learn more about the valuable tips and secrets of traveling, then put yourself in this picture!