[NAGDU] Washington Seminar!

[Robert Stigile]

Hi Julie,
I have taken my dogs every year I have attended Washington Seminar.
I will be there this year again, and will have a new dog with me.
As for the relief area there is a large area of grass across the street from the hotel which is where they typically like people to go.
There are several different ways to get the office buildings and other places around town, the most common is a taxi, there is Uber and lyft, and you could always walk from the hotel to the house office buildings which would give your dog the exercise it would need.
Hope this helps,


----- Original Message -----
From: Julie McGinnity via NAGDU  <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"  <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 10:44 am
Subject: [NAGDU] Washington Seminar!

>
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I will be attending my first Washington Seminar this month.  Yay!  I
> hope to see many of you there.  Anyway, I am definitely bringing my
> dog, and I have no doubt that he will love it.  It might even tire him
> ou...  I am wondering if there is anything I should know about DC
> seminar as a guide dog user.  Is it hard to find good places to park
> the dogs?  Does the hotel have a relief area?  How do we travel back
> and forth to and from the capitol every day?
> 
> Now I am counting on a lot of walking.  I hope I won't be
> disappointed.  :were  Bill is used to a couple miles every day, and one
> of the reasons he gets stressed at conventions is that he doesn't get
> quite that much.  Am I forgetting anything?  Do you guys enjoy taking
> your dogs to Washington Seminar?
> 
> 
> 
> - 
> Julie A. McGinnity
> President, National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts Division,
> Second Vice President, National Federation of the Blind of Missouri
> "For we walk by faith, not by sight"
> 2 Cor. 7
> 
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Robert Stigile
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