[Travelandtourism] Need your ideas for our next fundraiser event trip for 2014

[cheryl echevarria]

Good morning all:
I hope everyone is have a great last hurrah for the unofficial end of Summer 2013. Can you believe it. September starts on Sunday. Where did it all go. To fast if you ask me.
And then in October is the New York State Convention and then we are off to Vegas and the National Parks for our very 1st trip.
We are making a nice profit on this trip. So we need to start now to plan our trip for 2014.
October is a long way off, but many of us are on limited  budgets, and would like to do something which we can pay off over time.
Now we need to hear from your where you want to go.
Last year the Officers of the Division, asked each other where do we want to go, Milton suggested the National Parks and that is what we did.
But we want to hear from all of the division and people on this list, some may get this message more than once, because we have a membership ship list, and we have the talk list, some are on both.
I am going to post things we can do with a different bus company with more options then the tour company we are using, not saying we have to do any of these, but there are what we can do.
Also, if you live in the NY/NJ/CT/PA Area, the bus can leave from here and people can fly into NY to start the trip and see other stopping points along the way, or we all can fly into a specific location and meet there or we can have pricing for both flying in and taking the bus from the NY Area.
We need a minimum of any trip we do of 30 people and up. Under 30 will be kind of hard. Even with the trip we are doing now we have 27 people.
Okay, you are asking why October, "Meet the Blind Month"
We are having our first meeting of the division via teleconference call on Monday, September 30, 2013 at 8PM Eastern. We will have a monthly meeting at least once a month. We are asking if you cannot attend to please let us know soon. It has to be no later than 8PM, because I live in NY and I cannot stay up later than that. The e-mail is info at nfbtravel.org
Also if Monday doesn't work we can vote as a division to when we can have it. But until then it will be on Monday.
No destination is off the table, but we have to think realistically time frame. How long do we want to be away? How much is it going to cost? That is the big question.
We have heard from 1 person Puerto Rico, that would be great, Nelson my husband is from there, but remember we would have to fly, and most things are not all included in our trip. I would rather deal with a tour operator that includes transportation, lodging, food, etc.
We should focus on visiting our great country. Some just been to Orlando for the first time, but couldn't afford to do the sights or had the time to do it, Same with Dallas, and also with Washington, DC. How many people go every year to the Washington Seminar but don't go and visit our Nation's Capital and see all the sights.
I will post a separate e-mail within the day and your vote at info at nfbtravel.org what you would like to do. If you vote on it, then you want to go on the trip. We will discuss the actual dates once we figure out where we are going.
Please respond, let us know, and the majority of the interest we will go, the 2nd one we can do in 2015 etc.
At least we have an idea of what people like to do.
Thank you very much for your time.
Cheryl Echevarria, PresidentNFB Travel and TourismNational Federation of the Blindwww.nfbtravel.orginfo at nfbtravel.org631-236-5138