[Colorado-Talk] Your input is needed regarding day trips for members of Colorado Talk please read

Fri Jul 31 17:55:47 UTC 2026

I like the idea of train tours. My first husband and I always wanted to ride the train from Durango to Silverton. While I know this would be impossibly far away for us to do as a  metro NFB group, it would be fun to try some tours nearer to Denver.

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Hello,

What an amazing idea. I will be back in CO in Oct. I am totally down for whatever you want to do but I would love doing maybe some train tours.
Jessica

On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM Kijuana Chambers via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:colorado-talk at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
Good early Friday morning. My name is Kijuana. I am interested in any day trips that you plan in the future, and would be more than happy to participate in them. Because I’m on SSDI if a trip costs a certain amount of money I’m gonna need to know at least a month in advance as this list is good at doing in order to set aside money to pay for the trip. Also, I love Colorado and have been to places like Estes Park, and Winter Park, and even Keystone. I know that there’s a lot of different things that we can explore in different parts of the Metro area and up in the lower mountain region. I personally love going to the casino and went for the Grandy trip that we took back in June. As far as I’m concerned, anything goes. I’m more than willing to be a participant in this and I am happy to know that you are interested in getting people with visual impairment out of isolation into a place of exploring our region. Thank you so much for sending this email. If I can help in anyway, please contact me. Have a great day.
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On Jul 30, 2026, at 11:18 AM, Derek Selbo 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.

Thank you and best regards

Derek Selbo
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