Car And Driver: Winnebago Builds A More Accessible RV To Help Everyone Get Away

The Go RVing team has worked with more than 100 media outlets this year, sharing the RV story with millions. We are thrilled to have helped Ryan with the details of his trip, highlighting the accessibility of RVing to all, including those with a disability.

When you or a family member is disabled, either by birth or by happenstance, one of the many privileges that can be diminished is the privilege of spontaneity. I miss not having to plan.

Whether it's jumping in the car to go for ice cream or jumping in the car to go to the beach for a week, moments of inspiration can be complicated by the addition of a wheelchair. Or by chronic pain that must be managed with medication. By dietary considerations most people don't have. Even by a cane, I imagine. Or a walker.

This is not a complaint, mind you. Just a reality.

We took lots family car trips before our younger son needed a wheelchair, back in the first seven glorious years of his life. He and his older brother would climb in the back seat of our blue station wagon, and they were always good passengers—sharing Goldfish, no one fighting about who was touching whose side of the seat.

Now that the younger boy is on wheels and requires medications injected through a tube into his belly, the idea of a spontaneous weekend road trip someplace, while not impossible, often seems that way.

The older one had an idea—he always has an idea of a place to go, or a thing to do, or a way to spend money—which was to take an RV trip. This seemed doable. We had test-driven a Winnebago a few years before, and it was one of our best and most memorable family trips and one I recommend, whether you buy or rent a vehicle. 

Check out the full article from Car and Driver here.