Back in 2021, we had guest Laura Bain on Outlook, a reunion between Bain and co-host Brian after meeting twenty years earlier training for guide dogs in Quebec.

This week, we welcome Laura Bain back to the show after two years of a program she’s been studying in, a Masters of Socialwork and we’re checking in on how school, for her once more, is going.

We discuss school, but we spend a lot of time hearing about Laura’s recent travels in France, as a person with low vision, and her sighted partner. She shares with us an audio clip of the church bells in Avignon recorded from the window of their Airbnb. While photos can still be important to have for those who are low vision or blind, audio recordings are more accessible. We hear about levels of accessibility in that country and Laura’s issues traveling in new destinations as her level of vision slowly changes, as she shares about her 2018 solo trip to New York City which taught her important lessons, as Kerry relates with her recent Ireland travel experience and Brian looks forward to his UK trip coming up.

Laura also shares about her choice to leave AMI to start her Masters program and her drive and pressure throughout life, being low vision, to obtain and hold onto paid work, with the high unemployment rate for blind and low vision people. Plus we hear about her feelings on dating, specifically online dating as a low vision user.

So check this one out for an update on school, to find out if she had success trying online dating, along with lots of travel talk and tips and we’ll be back/Laura will be back, next week, to join in for a Mixed Bag show.

Also you can hear, for more background on Laura, the show where she first appeared:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/outlook-2021-07-19-20-years-later-with-laura-bain/id1527876739?i=1000529853429