[nfbwatlk] Fw:Ford museum tour

[Mike Freeman]

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Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: [nfbcs] 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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