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

Fri Aug 30 13:21:17 UTC 2013

Tracie if you are voting that means you are going. Remember that everyone. If you are voting you are also making a commitment to go and help encourage others to go as well.
We will talk more on the September 30th talk.

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> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:47:15 -0700
> From: tracieinman at yahoo.com
> To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Need your ideas for our next fundraiser	event trip for...
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> I love the idea of the Smokey Mountains and Pigeon Forge, but Nashville sounds wonderful, too.  - Tracie
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> ________________________________
>  From: Jana Jackson <jana at janajackson.com>
> To: 'NFB Travel and Tourism Division List' <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Need your ideas for our next fundraiser event trip for...
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> I know someone mentioned visiting Nashville.  Another fun Tennessee place is
> the Smoky Mountains.  There's a lot to do in both Pigeon Forge and
> Gatlinburg.  Take care!
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> Jana
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> From: Travelandtourism [mailto:travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of DBrown8827 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:04 PM
> To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Need your ideas for our next fundraiser
> event trip for...
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> Places that I would like to  visit.
> 1. Memphis Tennessee
> 2. St. Louis, Missouri 
> 
> Denice Brown
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> In a message dated 8/29/2013 12:16:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> 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
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