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Meeting Butler County, Ohio

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I was invited to spend a long weekend in Butler County, Ohio, just after they became Wheel The World certified for accessibility. The tourism board wanted me to write about how wheelchair accessible the region is. I hadn’t been there before, and it sounded like an interesting area, so I made plans to go. My trip to Butler County turned out to be one of my most unusual adventures, with new experiences, and a lot of donuts!   I brought Teddy and my friend, Heather, along for the ride, about three and a half hours from home. We had a nice welcome basket waiting for us at the hotel. Our home base was the Marriott Cincinnati North in Westerville. I was happy at the start with a flat entrance and automatic doors. They didn’t have any accessible rooms, so we had two connecting rooms. Teddy loved going back and forth between the two rooms. Mine had plenty of space for me to wheel around, a well-equipped desk area I could reach, and a large bathroom with a shower chair. The handheld was...
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Apple, Xfinity and the Defective IPhone

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Update 2/16/26: Ten days after I finally received my IPhone back, it stopped working again! This time I was in California and I was unable to make or receive calls.  I contacted Apple and, after some troubleshooting, we determined I once again had a hardware issue. I went the next day to an Apple store and they immediately wanted to send it in for repair (once again, Xfinity would take not responsibility. I reminded them that the phone was only six months old and it had been kept a month for the last repair. I felt it was time I got a new phone and that's what I was told would take place if this happened again. They claimed that wasn't possible. The trip home was a bit tricky without a working phone and I went into my local Best Buy to see if they could fix it. I was told the insides of the phone would once again need to be completely replaced. The part took a week to arrive and I had to bring it back, then precede to reset my entire phone for the third time in six weeks. Needl...
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Location: Champaign, IL, USA
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