Growing up in rural Ontario, I have always wanted to visit Ottawa. Now that I'm older and attending University, I have more opportunity to travel, but unfortunately, there are no reliable or affordable means for me to get to our nation's capital.

That is when I got thinking; how would someone in a wheelchair get to Ottawa? Drive a van? Most of us living on ODSP cannot afford an accessible vehicle. Take a bus? Takes too long for a weekend trip. Train? Also, pretty expensive. Fly? Airlines believe wheelchairs are pieces of "luggage," meaning they will not take responsibility for damaged and lost wheelchairs.

Are there any plausible options? What is a boy to do, when all he wants is to see the nation's capital?

There is only one clear choice; do it myself.

With joystick in hand and pavement under wheel, I will drive my wheelchair from London to Ottawa.