It all started with a trip to Cuba.

Our guest on Outlook this week explains: At one moment in life you don’t really know what you’re doing and then, all of a sudden, you get this opportunity and a huge passion just grew out of it.

From Belgium to Canada, Linsay Lusyne has a love of travel, opening it up to everyone along the way starting with a previous experience training blind people on navigating and guide dogs for blind travel before travel coaching in a different way.

Lusyne shares about growing up on the coast of a small European country and her early memories of saving up for eye surgery at age five,, about her family’s reaction when she left for an island trip, and the empowering feeling she had from that first big solo adventure.

We discuss her entry into training guide dogs and their companions which started with a love of dogs and an internship, the move she made to Canada with a desire for long-term travel, and her eventually stepping into becoming a travel coach who helps plan and book travel including recently creating group trips and trips of all kinds, as she helps blind travellers in particular to break down their travel and adventure dreams into manageable actionable steps.

As a sighted lover of travel and with her knowledge of orientation and mobility and guide dogs, she runs the Vision Loss Travel group on Facebook and hosts meet-up calls to discuss the group trips she organises with both sighted and blind people, showcasing her love of experiencing the world as independently as one possibly can for everyone.

Lindsay says: Travel is not about ticking destinations off a list. I believe in the transformative power of exploration, and I'm passionate about making travel accessible and life changing for those with vision loss.”

Check out more about Linsay Lusyne, Travel Coach, by visiting her website:

https://www.visuallyimpairedtravel.com

Find her Vision Loss Travel Community on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/617168270274903/