April 17, 2007
Access Adventure of Northern California
You may want to take a look at the Access Adventure website and all they offer.
"We focus on what is possible, not on what we have lost. The worst disability is a bad attitude," says Michael Muir Director Access Adventure and great-great grandson of the naturalist John Muir.
Michael founded Access Adventure in 2005, after retiring as President of United States Driving for the Disabled, Inc. A lifelong horseman born in Dixon, CA in 1952, Michael has lived with Multiple Sclerosis for more than forty years. When he could no longer ride, he taught himself to drive the horses. Michael commented, "Even though I can’t ride anymore…when I put the reins in my hands, we start that great communication between man and horse. It’s the dance of life and I’m in it."
Refusing to be daunted by the relentless course of his disease, Michael credits his life with horses and the ability to enjoy nature with keeping him active and strong. In 2001, he led an international group of horsemen and women with disabilities on a remarkable 3,000 mile, ten month Journey Across America, driving wheelchair accessible horsedrawn carriages from the Mission San Diego in California all the way to Washington, DC. In 2003 he and Cindy Goff, a paraplegic horsewoman from Kentucky drove a carriage, powered by Michael’s horse Domino, from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico along the same route John Muir traveled in 1867.
We are happy to announce the "birth" of the ACCESS ADVENTURE website.Posted by rollingrains at April 17, 2007 06:38 PMIt has finally happened thanks to our web designer, and multi-talented volunteer, Debbie Martin. The website has been designed to be a "living" document, one that we can continually update to provide information about ACCESS ADVENTURE. On the Home Page you will see links not only to organizations that are important to our program, but a link to the calendars. On the Special Events Calendar additional links are available to each of the events, as information is finalized.
We hope you will visit http://access-adventure.org soon, and join us for adventures in nature as a rider, a volunteer or a donor.
Two Special Events are coming up soon. April 21st we will be participating in a great Earthday event at the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez. May 19th ACCESS ADVENTURE is having Horse Fair, "Horses in California History", and a fundraising dinner and auction, "Celebrating Adventure" at Solano Land Trust's historic, scenic Rush Ranch near Suisun.
We welcome comments, information or questions - please send to this email address or to info@access-adventure.org. If you prefer to be removed from our mailing list, please let us know.
Hope to see you soon!
Michael Muir