ALTERNATIVE TO FLYING OR DRIVING?
When the Zelaya family travels from their home in Brooklyn, New York, to Boston or Washington, DC, they take an Amtrak train.
Leah Zelaya, a former MDA National Ambassador, and her dad,
Jaime, live with scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy (SPSMA).
“When we travel on an airplane, we rush to get through the terminal, and I never know if my wheelchair is going to come back to me in one piece,” says Leah, a 17-year-old actor, dancer, and model who walks with bilateral leg braces and uses a wheelchair for long distances.
“Using the train is like a different, stress-free world.
It’s way
better.”
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