[Travelandtourism] Met a person in Las Vegas who worked for Dr. Jernigan

[cheryl echevarria]

 I will be posting experiences from our 1st Fundraiser Trip we just came back from. It was an experience for everyone. We have tons of stories and to write it all down will take a book. Try to see how I can shorten it for a story for our website, braille monitor and meet the blind month.
 
Below is the first one I am posting from Deana and John Bates of Orange County, CA, but if you have been around awhile the Deana Bates she was the President of the NFB of Wyoming for a while.
 
 
As you all may have read during the last few months, is that the NFB Travel & Tourism Division, a proud division of the National Federation of the Blind. Is that we had our very 1st Fundraiser Trip, which was a complete success and learning experience for all involved including to the people we met along the way of our trip to Las Vegas and Utah, and yes the parks were opened. The state of Utah opened its National Parks while we  were there, even though the country was on shutdown.
 
A few stories  and descriptions of our experiences will be posting for meet the blind month, and I am also hoping in the braille monitor, but it will definitely be on the www.nfbtravel.org website.
 
Below is one of the experiences that Deana and John Bates members of the NFB of Orange County, CA, had at the Riviera Hotel where we stayed the first night and the last night of our trip, about meeting a man who works at the Riviera Hotel, who worked for Dr. Jernigan in the 1960's at the Iowa Commission. Please read the story below.
 

John and I wanted to tell you about a very unusual experience we had at the Riviera on Monday the day we left to come home.  We ordered room service from Wicked Vicky's.  The guy who brought our food was 78 years old and his name is Eugene Plaid.  Not sure if that name means anything to Ramona  or not, but he worked for Dr Jernigan at the Iowa Commission in the 1960's teaching cane travel.  He told us he came to Las Vegas to work with blind persons and had walked all over Las Vegas under sleep shades before he started teaching his students.  He said he worked for the Riviera for 43 years his wife was a medical Transcriptionist and they put five kids through college.  Apparently he worked two jobs one teaching cane travel as well as working at the Riviera.  We loved meeting him and talking about his experiences.  He has been to our National Conventions.  It just seemed so odd to us that someone who would deliver our food worked at the Iowa Commission with Dr Jernigan.  

Also John and I had a big laugh about Wicked Vicky what an appropriate name  rofl
Deanna 





Cheryl Echevarria, PresidentNFB Travel & Tourism DivisionNational Federation of the Blind631-236-5138www.nfbtravel.orginfo at nfbtravel.org