Getting There Is Half The Battle, Travelling To Hope Heals Camp | Ep. 57

Ep. 57 | If you have ever talked yourself out of a trip because the logistics felt too heavy, too complicated, too much to coordinate on top of everything else you are already carrying this episode is for you. When the Brouillette family was chosen to attend Hope Heals Camp in Nauvoo, Alabama, Erika's first instinct was to drive. Seventeen hours later, Layne getting home from a mission trip to Mexico the day before, and a price difference of nearly a thousand dollars between Birmingham and Atlanta changed that plan fast. Days of preparation, homemade tube feed made from scratch the night before departure, enough catheters and drain bags and supplements and motion sickness patches to cover a week away, a friend of a friend watching the dog, and a family decision to just stay up all night and get it done. Their flight was at five forty-five in the morning. This episode covers everything that happened between that decision and the moment they pulled into camp  the wrong birthdate on Shelby's ticket discovered at TSA, the TSA Cares program Erika had never heard of before this trip, the packed Delta flight with zero leg room and the kind stranger who switched seats, the light rail in Atlanta with a wheelchair and no sleep, and the bright red Dodge Ram the boys insisted on. It also covers the trip home, Mend coffee shop in Atlanta, the World of Coca-Cola, and learning  that traveling with a disability in Atlanta means someone will drive you from the rental car drop-off straight to your terminal door. This is the episode with all the logistics, all the things she is passing on to you so that next time you think about talking yourself out of something you have one less reason to do it.   TSA Cares Sunflower Lanyard Hope Heals Hertz Program Come continue the conversation at Reclaim