[nfb-talk] Future NFB Conventions

Peter Donahue pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 26 22:32:41 UTC 2009


Happy Thanksgiving everyone,

    Another solution would be to arrive a few days early for site seeing or 
stay a few days following the convention to take in the many tourist 
attractions in the Atlanta Area or wherever we hold our national 
conventions.

Peter Donahue

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I live in Orlando and there are certainly lots of touristy things to do
here. Lots more fun than listening to convention speakers. Hope they bring
together an interesting crowd or I suspect most convention goers will be
visiting Mickey Mouse or Universal or riding the rides at Islands of
adventure, a truly fun amusement park. Lots of roller-coasters. That is my
vote-----IOA. *smile.

Sherri
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>I would only add to this string with the comment that at the last national
> convention I attended, this topic was brought up.  Both the issue of
> paying
> more and changing the time were presented.  Overwhelmingly both items were
> massively defeated.
>
> So long as the membership is determined to pay as little as possible and
> keeping the convention in the first days of July, choices will be
> extremely
> limited.
>
> I personally would rather undergo massive tooth extraction than spend a
> week
> in Dallas in July.  Especially when the hotel is basically isolated.  So
> that one cannot just walk out and access the city.
>
> Orlando holds great promise.  Indeed I cannot believe that Marc allowed
> the
> convention to be booked in such a desirable tourist location.  Having
> stayed
> in Orlando when attending the Daytona 500, I am aware of all the
> distractions beyond Disney.  There is enough in Orlando to make skipping
> the
> boring guy from agency X look very attractive.  And there are enough
> tourist
> attractions to make skipping him easy.
>
>
> Thanks, William
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:43 PM
> To: nfb-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Future NFB Conventions
>
> True enough! This stems from at least two factors: First, the number of
> convention attendees has increased greatly, making it harder to find a
> single hotel that will hold a majority of them. In essence, we're too big
> for the smaller hotels and not quite big enough for the megahotels.
>
> Second, despite the severe economic down-turn (or, perhaps, because of
> it),
> hotels have become far tougher to negotiate with than in days of yore,
> necessitating making of contracts farther out in order to get anything
> like
> the rates NFB members are used to.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerardo Corripio" <gera1027 at gmail.com>
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> Date: Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 11:32:06
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Future NFB Conventions
>
>>
>>
>> I've noticed that in the past more cities were sites of NFB conventions
>> whereas since about 2004 or so the only cities I've heard where
> conventions
>> are have been either Dallas, Atlanta whereas in years past I've heard
>> that
>
>> cities as Kansas, Houston, Denver and San Francisco I think was once site
> of
>> a convention.
>> Gerardo
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Darian Smith" <dsmithnfb at gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Future NFB Conventions
>>
>>
>> You know, it might take some bit of nagotiation, but I would love to
>> see National convention in San Francisco. I mean, think of the
>> possibilities... You  can have people touring the city, students could
>> visit  both San Francisco state and UC Berkley,  Guide dogs for the
>> blind is  basically right across the goldengate bridge, oh, and did  I
>> mention the goldengate bridge? you can have  the march crossing the
>> goldengate bridge.
>>  and  for those people who like baseball and tend to visit the ball
>> yard... AT&T Park is about  as pretty of a park as they come. you can
>> take the bus and find some good food about anywhere in the city.
>>  Not to mention that you could  get alot of attention by just being in
>> san
>
>> fran.
>>  Besides,  one of our historically great leaders came from northern
>> california.
>>  I think  that's  all amazing reasons  to  make  a national convention
>> a golden gate event.
>>   Darian
>>
>> On 11/25/09, d m gina <dmgina at samobile.net> wrote:
>> > thanks Mike I will do just that.
>> > Sure would love to see NFB in Colorado again.
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