Cool Technology

[kumir_k9]

I'm back to talking about my brother Randy who's spending the week on a warm-up hike up in the White Mountains of NH.  He's with a bunch of people hiking up to 14 mountains, no mean feat for a blind guy.   Lots of credit to both him and to Quinn, his hard working guide dog.

But the really cool part of this is that we can see how they're progressing.  It's an ongoing GPS tracking of their progress and you can check it out here.  The different views are really interesting.

share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp

As an aside, thank you to all who donated in response to my post from this weekend for the NH Association for the Blind walk-a-thon coming up in June.

Comments

Randy is just tooo cool!

[lydushka1.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that Randy got that award. Now he can prove again how cool he is. I know Randy from the SCA and even then I knew he was a determined and dedicated man.
I also was privilaged to know the great Ostend! it broke my heart when I heard that he passed away.
But the Might Quinn stepped into his paws and is a tribute to the Great Ostend's memory. He's from my old stomping grounds...the Guiding Eyes for the Blind in Yorktown Heights, NY.
I spend a summer there tending the kennels and it was amazing the work that goes into training the dogs.
Pardon the pun, but it was eye opening.
as part of a summer camp the following year, I spent it at a camp that was similar to Outward Bound, but it had a wimpier name, Summer in the light.
You get to choose a handicap and spend a week in that handicap's restriction.
I chose blindness....
for one week, I had bandages covering my eyes and I had no sight at all.
I learned alot that week..how to walk down stairs, how to use a cane, eat food, all sorts of things...only I didn't learn to read with my hands...that would have taken alot more time than a week.

Man...do I appreciate my sight now and what Randy is going thru...talk about courage and determination!

My hand is over my heart dear man.