[nfb-talk] Denver visit

[Ed Meskys]

My sighted wife and I will be in Denver 14 nights this summer, from July 28
to Aug 11. The first 8 nights we will be at Best Inn and Suites at $44 a
night. This includes complimentary hot breakfast and kitchen for cooking
dinner. It is 70 miles west on I-70 tho we will not have a car. The last six
nights we will be in a hotel next to the Convention Center for the World
Science Fiction Convention.

I am writing here because we would like to spend one day at the Colorado
Center, in order to observe the program, and if possible take part in a
lesson or two. We want to firm up a day to do this before we book any tours.
I will be 72 in a few weeks, became blind suddenly and totally while at a
blackboard teaching a class in physics on Nov 2, 1971. I had a 15 week
course in rehab at the Carroll Center from March to June 1972,  long before
there were NFB Centers or I had even heard of the NFB. I had 2 hours a day
of O&M, and was reading grade 2 Braille after 12 weeks. There was some bunk
like an hour a week of psychological counseling, and we left our canes as we
went thru the cafeteria line, but on the whole I think they did a pretty
good job. Also, for sports we had an hour a week of fencing. Anyhow, I do
want to experience a sample bit of NFB training. My sighted wife would also
like to try some under sleep shades, tho obviously she never had any cane
experience. I got my first Seeing Eye dog August 1972 and am now on my 4th,
so while I can still travel with a cane I am a bit rusty.

Is there anyone on this list from the Colorado Center? If not, can you give
me advice on whom to write?

My wife had accompanied me to the 1989 National Con in Denver, and we had
taken the Wednesday afternoon tour to the Pike's Peak cog railway, had
dinner at Brown's Palace, and did a bit of shopping on the pedestrian mall.
We are planning to do the 10 hour Gray Line tour of Rocky Mountain National
Park, and the 7.5 hour Gray Line tour of Denver and vicinity. Can anyone
advise us on other things to do? We like "living history" museums, and see
that there are two, both about 50 miles outside the city. Can anyone give
info on how to get there without a car? We are reluctant to rent one because
my wife does not like to drive in cities or unfamiliar places.

Please write me off-list with tourist advice, as that is not appropriate for
this list. I hope my request for info on the Colorado Center makes this
posting appropriate.

best, Ed Meskys holding NH state board positions since 1976.


Edmund R. Meskys
NIEKAS Publications
National Federation of the Blind of N.H.
Moultonboro Lions Club
edmeskys at localnet.com
322 Whittier Hwy
Moultonboro NH 03254-3627
my credo:
Clinton lied, nothing happened
Bush lied, thousands died
and over 3,000 permanently brain injured