Travelling with a disability can be fantastic, it just needs a lot more planning

I didn’t do much overseas travel when I was younger — I focused on my career, buying a house, and then raising my family.

But a few years ago I came to a realisation: if I wanted to see the world, it was now or never.

My mobility was slowly (but surely) getting worse. So I set about planning how I was going to travel.

I learned having a disability doesn’t mean you can’t travel — you just need to plan more. A lot more!

A life-changing condition with no answers

I have an undiagnosed spinal cord problem.

Basically I have idiopathic progressive spastic paraplegia, which means I’m slowly being paralysed from the legs up.

It was first noticed in 2000, but despite all the specialists and tests over the years, I’m no closer to a diagnosis or a…