Driving around Romania delivering Wheelchairs -- September 2, 2008

This is the route taken for the wheelchair deliveries that were made the last week of August, 2008. I was able to get eight wheelchairs for small children from the Mangalia Rotary Club shipment of 280, one of the two containers that size that were received in Romania this summer from the Wheelchair Foundation. I put out a call for these tiny "scaune cu rotile" to PC volunteers who are working with disabled children, and received many requests from all over the country. This trip started in Constanta, after the first of my tiny wheelchairs was delivered in Ostrov. A Rotary colleague donated a van, a driver, and expenses for both, for the three days of this long drive! That's the true spirit of Rotary, and this generous Romanian man, Dan Petculescu of Duo Distributie, is my hero! We drove to Bacau, then Onesti, then all the way to Baia Mare. I also traveled to the little village of Baiut, where I visited PC volunteer Carol before returning to Constanta. The photo gallery is large, but it is worth viewing to see this beautiful country!

In addition there are other new photo galleries, my Constanta visitors in August, and for Lucy, the Black Sea beaches, also some museum sights. At the end of the visitors gallery, you can see pictures from the "Formula One" boat races in Mamaia last weekend. Here is my wonderful driver Iulian --

This is the famous Lake Bicaz

Some of the wheelchair deliveries

The children in Carol's village Baiut

And her Gazda bunici (grandparents)