[Colorado-Talk] August 5 is the final day four Your input regarding day trips for members of Colorado Talk please read

Wed Aug 5 21:22:14 UTC 2026

Hello,

I have a friend that doesn’t get Colorado talk messages, but she would like to be a part of these outings.

Her name is Mayra. I will send you a separate message with her contact information.

From: Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Derek Selbo via Colorado-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 4:23 PM
To: colorado-talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: Derek Selbo <derek.selbo at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Colorado-Talk] August 5 is the final day four Your input regarding day trips for members of Colorado Talk please read

Hello everyone, hope you're all enjoying the cooler weather as much as I am.

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is the last day that I will be accepting people responding and requesting to be a part of the group that I am putting together to do outdoor events and day or even weekend trips starting in the not too distantfuture. The purpose of putting this in place is to help create a more exciting and fun schedule of events that low  Vision and Blind people can collectively partake in and enjoy. I will be using my years of experience in organizing events to make this happen so that we can all increase the number of fun and enjoyable things that we can do together as a group. This group will also include sided individuals who will assist when we go to different locations around these state as well as in the Denver Metro area.

This is something that I am organizing individually and it is not a part of the NFB or the Ccb entity. I am putting it together as I know that there    are very many people out there who would love the opportunity to be able to do things they don't normally have available to them on a day-to-day basis as Blind individuals. This includes myself. I am very tired of not having a large enough variety of outdoor, travel and recreational plus Social type events to enjoy in addition to  those organized by various chapters.

Once I have closed the acceptance to join by midnight tomorrow, I will be contacting people via email as well as text if you wish to share your phone number related to upcoming events. As such, I would appreciate everybody that has already provided me with their intent to be a part of the group to send me an email directly to derek.selbo at gmail.com <mailto:derek.selbo at gmail.com> 

Just to let everybody know, I am doing this for fun and enjoyment, and not as a business or profit  making entity. This group is being created, purely for those with a desire for adventure and fun to have more opportunities to partake in.

Thank you and best regards

Derek Selbo

On Aug 3, 2026, at 11:01 PM, Tim Keenan via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Good day everyone,

As we head towards the spring season, I am considering arranging some day trips for the visually Impaired and Blind members here in the Denver Metro area and surrounds. This will take a lot of work and research on my behalf and I am not willing to waste time so I request that anyone who has any interest in doing such trips. Please respond to this message.

Here is a little bit of my initial thought process regarding this. When it gets a little cooler, it would be great that we were able to take organized day trips out to various locations around the Denver Metro area and beyond. I was thinking of places like Esther's Park where we could walk the towns Main Street sit by a river, stop for coffee, explore restaurants and whatever else there is to see. This is not the only place. I am just using it as an example. Additionally, we could organize events while the weather is so hot to go to places such as one of the reservoir beaches at Cherry Creek or Chatfield or wherever else.

I'm certain most of you will be able to understand the level of work involved in organizing something like this. Having arranged in excess of 500 events over the years before I went blind I have a lot of experience in event organization, and as a blind person, I have a lot of understanding of the fears and hesitations blind people may have related to doing something like this. As such, I would only look to do events in a very organized manner and would even need cited individuals to volunteer to assist. Transport is another option. We got to consider, and they are very many options related to this some of which will require much thought and will most likely also need everybody to input towards the cost of the Transport.

So, before I do any form of moving forward, I need everybody who has any interest to respond to this email. In the response, please give me your thoughts, questions, hesitation, or fear, factor, excitement for the event or whatever else it is you may be feeling in relation to doing something like this. Once I get enough input from people, I will either move forward or put it to sleep.

I am creating a deadline for responses as most people tend to read stuff and then forget about it and when the time comes, they wonder why they were not invited or did not receive any information. Think about that. Therefore, the deadline is August 5 to respond by 5 PM mountain time. I repeat the deadline for responses is August 5 by 5 PM.

Has mentioned earlier please respond with questions, thoughts, suggestions for locations and anything else that is pertinent.

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