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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Most (and Least) Accessible Travel Destinations with Cory Lee

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Traveling as a wheelchair user comes with some unique accessibility challenges, but Cory Lee has managed to visit 48 countries and all 7 continents. Cory is a travel blogger who shares his stories and tips for disabled travelers. He shares some of the most (and least) accessible destinations, hurdles he has encountered, and a few of his favorite memories from around the world. You can find Cory’s blog and group trips at CurbFreeWithCoryLee.com

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I've gone hot air ballooning over Spain I've gone paragliding in the Swiss Alps I've gone

0:07.0

sip lining in Florida like I love like adventurous activities where you would maybe think you know well that could never be

0:15.2

accessible and then what we find a way to make it happen. I have to admit I'm kind of

0:20.8

surprised about the paragliding. Yeah, I was too.

0:24.0

We were in Interlachin, and they had a seat.

0:27.0

It's basically like a chair,

0:29.0

and it was a tendon flight,

0:31.0

so a guy was behind me, like onto the chair and we just like jumped off a mountain and I was still sitting in the chair.

0:38.4

So it was like really comfortable and a pretty easy experience.

0:43.1

I had a lot of worries, but I mean, it was like amazing.

0:46.5

We were in the air for about 45 minutes.

0:48.8

Wow.

0:49.8

It was by far one of my favorite travel experiences I've ever had.

0:53.0

That's super cool.

0:55.0

Man, I'm jealous of these trips.

0:57.0

These are some good trips.

1:00.0

I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

1:06.7

incredible and wondrous places. Today I'm speaking with Corey Lee.

1:10.6

Corey is a travel blogger. Corey also has spinal... Lee. a little kid. And so these two things being a world traveler and traveling as a

1:26.8

wheelchair user has given him a very distinct view on the world. So Corrie is here today and he's going to tell us how he has managed to visit all seven

1:36.9

continents, what his top accessible travel destinations are.

1:41.8

We're going to talk a little smack about cities that are less

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