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Summer is fast approaching and that means I will be heading back to Badlands Music Festival this July. This event is a series of electronic, hip hop and country music shows that take place downtown during the famous Calgary Stampede. I have now attended the past 4 events in…
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At the end of last year, I got to visit Telus Spark Science Centre during the Christmas holiday season. I have not gone for around a decade, just a couple times when they reopened at the new location. I remember it being really wheelchair accessible and was excited to…
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2023 was a busy travel year for me as I got to go on 6 trips. I bought an annual pass to Universal Studios Hollywood so 3 of my 6 trips this year had to include a visit to that theme park to make my pass worth it. I…
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Back in June, a friend and I wanted to check out Banff and visit the hot springs. Just a year ago, I had a great experience with On-It Regional Transit to get to Banff from Calgary for $10 (each way for each person), that I wanted to do it…
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After having a great time at Badlands Music Festival in 2021 with the All Access Outlaw pass, I had to do it again for 2022. Back in 2019, I only went the one time, while in 2021 I went 5 times. For 2022 I went 4 times and saw…
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Recently, a friend and I decided to visit Edmonton over Halloween weekend to attend Scream Music Festival. Since my friend had to work weekdays, we could only attend the event Saturday night and leave Edmonton the very next day. That means we only needed a hotel for the 1…
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Last weekend a friend and I went on a day trip to Banff so we could ride the gondola and get a late lunch or early dinner. I recently traveled to Banff using the $10 accessible bus just over a month ago to hang out downtown and wanted to…
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Very recently a brother suggested a few of us visit Banff, Alberta for the day. At first, we were thinking about just getting me to transfer into a car and bringing my manual wheelchair along. I thought this would be the perfect time to try On-It Regional Transit to…
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Back in 2019, Blueprint Events acquired Knoxville’s Tavern and relaunched Badlands Music Festival into a 10 day party during Calgary’s Stampede week in July. It was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic but in 2021 with events starting to happen in the summer, the music festival was back…
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Chasing Summer Music Festival has been cancelled in 2020 and was initially also cancelled for 2021 due to the pandemic. When events started happening again late spring and summer, organizers quickly brought this popular festival 4 weeks later than it’s usual dates and renamed it Chasing Summer: Family Reunion. …
Hi my name is Alan Vuong. I had a really bad car accident that left me paralyzed and in a wheelchair. I have been to 25 countries since and never looked back. I have created this blog to share my experiences and adventures.