[nfb-talk] ford museum tour

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

ok, so i stand corrected, a cars list was created.
nobody can be on every list.
i still feel that with the obvious connection and no other tour arranged, 
the cars group should have jumped on this one.

Bryan Schulz
The BEST Solution
www.best-acts.com

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Subject: [nfb-talk] ford museum tour


> hi,
>
> excuse the cross post.
>
> I have seen several people asking about what tour would be possible to 
> experience so i called the Henry Ford museum.
>
> I learned that especially if you are mostly or completely blind, you will 
> not likely enjoy the ford museum if you go by yourself as they do not have 
> assistant workers that walk around and answer questions and you can't 
> touch the cars.
> The lady who answered the phone said you could easily spend about three 
> hours just
> in the autos section.
>
> It seems that the cars division should have already made the 
> contact/collected the information but there doesn't seem to be a list for 
> that group and nothing happens between conventions.
>
> I plan to schedule my return flight later in the day so i can stop at the 
> ford museum which is half way between the marriott and the airport.
>
> i explained that there will be 2,500 to 3,000 people at the convention and 
> didn't know how many would be looking to take a tour and we have a 
> antiques and hot rods group and they have provided cloth gloves in the 
> past so we could feel parts of the cars that were displayed.
>
> the lady will call me back next week after she does some research which 
> will also give people some time to consider this plan;
> email me if you want to be part of a group tour of 15 to 25 people which 
> will cost $150.
> we will be provided with a guide that will tell us details about what 
> we're looking at like model, year, features, history, etc. and the guide 
> will assist us for 90 minutes.
> After that time, you can explore more on your own or possibly pay again 
> for another session.
>
> the proposed time would be somewhere between 12:00p and 3:00p so you could 
> have time to check out, eat lunch, then travel to the museum.
>
> Bryan Schulz
> The BEST Solution
> www.best-acts.com
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