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10/27/2019
My Departure
Routing: AA735
Manchester, UK (MAN)
Philadelphia (PHL)
Baltimore (BWI)
Total distance:
3,510 miles - 5,649 km
In-flight Poetry from 35K feet above
The adventure of a lifetime begins for me this day
I’m crossing deepest ocean trying to keep my nerves at bay
I’ve not done this since my vision has slipped away from me
But this is what I’m meant for
I’m where I’m meant to be
This blind poets on a mission
do all I know I can
and mile by mile I fly in style thanks to American
My destination’s waiting the stage is set for me
Change hearts and minds how we’re defined
know soon they’ll finally see
If I can make this journey defy that voice inside
who told me I was useless like my eyes I know it lied
So watch me take each challenge and smash it out the park
I know my eyes are fading but I’m no longer in the dark
Welcome Dave to America!
Dave’s American Eagle ERJ-145 arriving at the gate (BWI)
Dave Steele meeting Lannie D. for the first time
10/28/19 VisionCorps - Lancaster, PA
Dave Steele and Lannie D. posing outside VisionCorps offices Lancaster, PA
10/28/19 Turkey Hill Experience - Columbia, PA
Dave Steele, Bari Azman, and Lannie D. making an impromptu stop at the Turkey Hill Ice Cream Experience
Dave Steele “driving” an old fashioned ice cream delivery truck
10/29/19 Sight-Loss Support Group of Greater Baltimore
Dave Steele and Diane Ducharme co-hosting the Sight-Loss Support Group of Greater Baltimore
Dave Steele with Sharon Payne
Dave Steele with Diane
Diane Ducharme, Bari Azman, Dave Steele, and Lannie D. posing together at The Low Vision Shop
10/30/19 Early morning travel
Baltimore, MD (BWI) to Providence, RI (PVD)
Southwest Airlines Flt#160
10/30/19 Rhode Island College in Association with
The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities
Providence, RI
10/30/19 Late night arrival to Boston, MA
Dave Steele and Bari Azman arrive to Boston, MA
10/31/19 Boston, MA
Dave Steele, Bari Azman, and Jim Sinocchi
Jim Sinocchi, Dave Steele and Bari Azman
at JPMorgan Chase, Boston, MA
Dave Steele at Boston South Station
Bari Azman, Dave Steele and Jay Ruderman
at The Ruderman Family Foundation
Dave Steele and Bari Azman on-board Amtrak
10/31/19 New York City Arrival
New poem written somewhere between Boston and New York City
As I sit here
I think of tears from when I first felt lost
I felt my life was done down to the price that blindness cost
I couldn’t see the strength in me but it was always there
for even in my darkest times felt brave enough to share
Depression and anxiety have failed to do me in
When darkness at its darkest there’s a new dawn to begin
For every tear has brought me here to where you see me now
I see more than what’s possible despite what eyes allow
Was once unsure but now I tour to touch the hearts of you
To educate unseal my fate
I choose what now I do
This blindness cannot stop me like the speed of this Acela
My visions on a mission like a bearded Helen Keller
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