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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday. Oct. 22. 1985
Disabled friends inspire biker's trek
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
After biking 80-90 miles a day for 10 weeks, her bikes have given out. But her spirit hasn't.
Terry Nail, 23, riding from Eugene, Ore., to Boston, passed through Lawrence yesterday on her expedition across the country to increase awareness about mental and physical disabilities.
"My mother has a mental disability and two of my best friends have spinal injuries," she said. "People with disabilities can achieve, just as others, and I want them to know that."
"Most people don't understand mental disabilities," she said. "And people with physical handicaps are but part of their body doesn't work."
Nail is promoting a group, Mobility International, which was organized in the United States in 1981, on her journey through the towns and cities of 29 states. The organization is based in Eugene.
Mobility International promotes opportunities for disabled people to participate in international programs, such as American Field Service, the Peace Corps and Study Abroad.
After she reaches Boston, about Nov 20, she said she will start back Eugene in February by biking the East Coast and through the South.
Although Nail is working for Mobility International, no one is sponsoring her trip across the country. Her journey began Aug. 9, but the planning began in March, while
she was a senior at the University of Oregon.
She said it was important to educate about disabilities, because campuses needed to make sure that they provided sufficient access to disabled people.
When she received her diploma from the University of Oregon, Nail said, her two best friends couldn't get in to see her because the building wasn't equipped for wheelchairs.
She said that at first she was scared to travel alone, especially
after the challenge of the mountains in Colorado and almost being hospitalized for hypothermia.
"It's been easier than I thought," she said. "You just need the will to go on. People will help you. All you have to do is ask."
As long as I have a place to stay and food, I'm happy," she said. "People I have met have made me feel special. I've received more confidence now than I had in five years of college."
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