This is my 108th blog here, and my last. I’ve been providing your weekend reading for the last 13 months, and if I’ve given you anything to think about, enlighten you, or make you smile, I’m glad. A couple of months ago I was reading the farewell blog of a writer for Techcrunch who was moving on to greener pastures, and he did a great roundup of the favorite tech sites he’d covered during his tenure. I thought about doing something like that, but I’ve already explained how I’d answer the question “What’s Your Favorite Place?” And I told my favorite travel anecdote in my very first blog. Looking back over the last year, I suppose I wish I’d used this bully pulpit to discuss a bit more the issues that handicapped travelers face. I addressed it early on, in The Elephant Parade, but like most handicapped travelers it’s actually such a small part of who we are overall that it just doesn’t usually pop into mind. In my experience, kudos need to go to American airports in general for dealing with travelers who need wheelchairs. This is often people like me who can walk, but can’t walk far. Unlike me, they are often elderly. At most U.S. airports, porters who most often handle luggage are also the ones who push the chairs. Since this is America, capitalism rules, and like waiters the good ones–which in my experience is most of them–work hard for a good tip. The airports where I’ve felt the most like left luggage are those run by the British Airport Authority in the U.K., and I had a good four hours in Gatwick recently to explore why. It seems to be a budgetary issue; the B.A.A. hires subcontractors and there are simply nowhere near enough porters, or chairs. I’ve been left sitting on planes, in gates, and in various hallways for up to an hour while they scramble to find someone to push–at Heathrow, at Gatwick, at Manchester. This is no particular airline’s fault, but there’s also not much we can do except to complain (nicely) and write letters to both the airlines and the B.A.A. Plus, if England isn’t your destination, I can strongly suggest that if you need a wheelchair, find another country in which to change planes. I hate to leave you on a down note, so I’m going to leave you with some nice pictures instead. I recently stayed at the Jan III Sobienski Hotel in Warsaw, which will be the subject of the review in the July 30 edition of eFlyer, and here are some images from that trip. Bon voyage, and au revoir, – Mary Hunt, editor (through July 30), eFlyer