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On a recent trip to New York City, Sassy Wyatt stood atop the Empire State Building, the wind in her hair, soaking up the experience.
“I heard a helicopter flying by, I heard the sirens, I heard the birds, I heard people around me. I could smell the kind of the grittiness of the air – where it’s part clean air and part dusty is the only way I can explain it. And then feeling the kind of rattling – that’s what it felt like, the rattling – of the building underneath my feet,” Wyatt tells CNN Travel. “I realized how high up I was.”
Wyatt, who is now in her early thirties, lost her sight completely about a decade ago. The recent trip to New York was her second time in the city. She also visited before she became blind, back when she was 16.
