Sunday September 7, 2025
Welcome to another Sunday, but this time won’t be a day of rest but a day of adventure! We’re going to venture out to find a place to eat called Savvy Sliders. What an interesting name, right?
So for those that have never gotten a guide dog or waiting for that first one a bit of news for you. You can not venture out on your own off campus with your guide until you graduate. Any exploring while in class has to still be with that lovely cane of yours.
stupid gps
So, first this adventure was suppose to be with 3 of us heading out to find food for lunch, but sadly at the last minute one had to drop out. So it ended up just being Erik and I into the great outdoors.
It took us a while to get going because first Erik’s gps didn’t want to cooperate and he tried 3 different ones, lol, technology! But he won in the end and he got his going and I had mine going as well and off we went.
Note
at no time during our walk did the gps’s tell us what side of the street our location was in the beginning. So we just happily cruised along.
Erik and I got to Avon and Rochester and crossed it with no problem and I am terrible with street crossings with a cane. It makes me nervous because I do tend to veer. Luckily this time I actually didn’t do too bad.
We kept walking and talking and cruising after some point because then the sidewalks got terrible. Like seriously, someone needs to do something about these cracks in the way. What a tripping hazard!
It was my gps first that alerted me we had a problem. It said we were no longer on route. Erm, what, what do you mean we’re not on route, we’re still walking straight and you haven’t mentioned that we passed the place yet.
Erik’s still said things were fine.
We keep walking and I ignore my gps for now.
Then Erik’s stops and mine once again says we’re off route.
Well hell, ok, time to investigate, what the hell?
So I stop and play around with mine to see what’s going on while Erik is looking at his to. And erm, oops, guess what?
Now mine is telling me that we need to cross the street. WTF! Cross the street? Do you know how busy that street is?
Erik’s also is now telling him the same thing and he suggest that we just keep walking until we get to the next corner and then we can cross over. Ok, cool, not a problem, good idea.
The next corner turned out to be another 10 minute walk. Good Gods! And, and, there’s no button at this corner, no where! I looked. I even swung my cane around, ha, and probably had people in cars thinking I lost my mind, but no pole with an audible light crossing on it. Plenty of poles, but none that we needed.
So, after all that we had to turn around and walk all the way back to Avon and Rochester so that we could cross the street.
That nice adventure to Savvy Sliders that should have not taken long to get too, took bloody forever. Ha, but we made it and had a great lunch. The staff member behind the counter was very helpful as well.
We did not walk back to Leader, but took an Uber and here is where the next fun began!
Attacked by a tree
We get back to Leader via Uber who lets us off at the gates and drives off.
Me to Erik, erm, I’m not sure if we’re at the right gate, I don’t see a button or anything.
Erik, isn’t it the same gate that we left out of?
Me, no, that would be a different gate.
So at this point I give up looking for the button and try to call lLeader, but my phone decides to be stupid and doesn’t want to work. Grrrr.
So Erik calls instead and has better luck and tells whomever answers where we are after I tell him. They push the magic button and the gate opens.
Yay, we can get in! But I have to get Erik down to where I was because I was at the end that was opened and he was still further down the driveway.
Crap, hope this doesn’t close before he gets down here!
Erik is still on the phone with Leader as I’m trying to direct him to me and through the gate as it begins to beep to say it’;s about to close. Well hell! But he makes it through and all is well there.
But before I could tell him not to hang up so I can find out where to go from the gate, erm, he already did.
No prob, our phrase of the trip has been, we’ll figure it out and so far we have and had fun doing so, lol.
We’re cruising along a sidewalk that’s on campus and come across tables. well, I know we aren’t on the right side of the parking lot because there are no tables, but I’m not sure exactly where we are. No problem, I’ll just call Leader and hope my stupid phone works right this time.
As I pull out my phone to call Leader I also take a step away from the tables to see if there’s another sidewalk and .
Me, What the hell? I’m in a tree! How in the world did I get, a tree, wait, why is there a tree?
Forget the phone call, I’m stuck in a tree. No matter which way I turn, this tree is still there and in my hair! How in the hell did I get in this tree.
Me to Erik, one moment Erik, who is also near by. Stop don’t come any closer so you don’t get caught in this blasted tree!
Erik chuckles!
screw this tree, where’s my phone.
Me calling Leader and Amy answers. Hi Amy, Can you come help us poor lost soles Erik and I? We’re still lost out here and I’m stuck in a tree.
Amy, may, is that you as she’s chuckling.
Me, not funny! as I’m still fighting with the stupid tree. I’m stuck in a tree, I thought that we were close to where we need to be, but not exactly sure now since I don’t remember a stupid attacking tree.
Amy, laughs, I have never experienced this before and I’l be right out.
Luckily, before she finds us I have rescued myself from the darn tree and moved quickly away from it before it chose to attack me again!
grumbles, stupid darn tree Who put a tree there?
Turns out we were even closer than I thought. Near that annoying attacking tree there was a sidewalk that would have led to the place we needed to cross to the right side of the campus.
That was fun! See you next time.