Hello all:

We are in the lovely month of May, we have a few holidays this month, and also you and your family may have graduation plans or starting to plan for weddings and honeymoons.

Also, May is the time to start planning your Fall & Winter 2012, and Spring 2013 vacations.

Summer is around the corner, the best places to visit during the summer is Alaska, Hawaii, Europe, Africa, South America. Stay away from the Caribbean, it is a turbulent time of year with weather there.  What am I talking about, the big ladies out lurking in the waters is Hurricanes. I say ladies, because they are all named after us ladies.  From the beginning of July until the end of October.  I know this for a fact, my dear husband is from Puerto Rico, and we have lived through a few here on Long Island.

But anyway, we have some great news to talk about in this month's e-newsletter so please enjoy!

Sincerely,

Cheryl, Nelson and Maxx (Best Guide Dog in the World) Echevarria

 

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 Echevarria Travel has tickets to see Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway in New York City on Sunday, July 29th at 3pm at the Neil Simon Theater.  It is now on Broadway and is nominated as the best revival for a Tony Award on June 10th on CBS.

The show is the rock musical about the last days of Jesus Christ.  Some of the hits from the show are: "I don't know how to love him", and "Superstar"

The tickets are $90 per person, which $10.00 per ticket will go to the Travel and Tourism Division of the National Federation of the Blind, a proud division of the www.nfb.org, and also to JDRF.org, which is the Juvenile Diabetes Research  Foundation. 

Tickets are available to purchase until June 15th, 2012. Please contact us at 631-456-5394 or reservations@echevarriatravel.com

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We are getting really into the media services that are our there for us mean bloging, facebook, twitter, linkedin, and now we are doing our own podcasts on spreaker.com it is a free service to listen to and our show is the Echevarria Travel Show.  I try and do a show weekly, but as we all know life gets in the way of things.  You can subscribe to it like facebook, and when there is a new show, you will get an e-mail with the details. To listen to the shows just go to:

Also, Echevarria Travel is going to have a monthly live broadcast on the WTOE Radio/tv network.  As you may remember, I have been a guest of host Joe Ruffalo, who is the President of the New Jersey, NFB, twice once in 2010 and once back in March 2012.

My first show is a pre-recorded show and it will air on Wednesday, May 30th  at 8pm Eastern, you just go to

http://www.thruoureyes.org and you can listen to the show or you can listen and watch on facebook at the same name thruoureyes.org page, and watch ustream live button on the page.  

I will be doing a live show, starting the 1st Wednesday of each month, the first live one is June 6th at 8pm, and people can call in to talk to me, so if you just want to say hello on the first show go right ahead and do so, I will in the future have guests as well.

A little information on thruoureyes.org 

Also, and this is very exciting, I have been on regular radio down in Florida on the Big810Am, yes real radio live shows.  I have been asked to come back and call in a few times, the show is called Blind Matters, this is the first of its kind and can be heard if you don't live in Florida, on www.big810am.com.  This is the first radio show of its kind. 

The show runs on Saturdays from 3-5pm, and it is all talk radio, a very entertaining show, about life and what blind people do, and how live, and how we few things in life.  

The show has been picked up, and will be not only in Orlando, but in the Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Atlanta and Philadelphia areas. So stayed turned as of June 30th, these markets will be carrying the show.

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June 1st, 2012 is the last day to book your deposits for the Fundraiser Cruise to Bermuda for the NFB of New Jersey.  The cruise is sailing round trip from Bayonne, NJ on Royal Caribbean's, Explorer of the Seas to Bermuda, April 13-18, 2013.

$100.00 deposit per person is needed by June 1st, 2012, payment plans can be arranged once deposits are met.  For more information about the cruise. Please contact us at 631-456-5394 or reservations@echevarriatravel.com

This supports the National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey. 

The National Federation of the Blind is an organization of blind people whose purpose is to promote equal opportunity for the blind. Founded in 1940, the Federation has affiliates in every state, Puerto Rico, Washington DC and includes more than 50,000 of the nation's blind.

 

Dedicated to the complete integration of the blind into society, the Federation works toward the removal of legal, economic, and societal barriers to full participation by blind people in employment, education, recreation, and all other aspects of community life.

 

The Federation is working to end discrimination by educating the public to new concepts about blindness and the abilities of blind people, offering training and advocacy to blind people and to parents of blind children, and providing job referrals and placements.

 

The Federation helps the newly blinded to learn the techniques that will enable them to maintain productive lives and informs them of services available from governmental and private agencies and of the laws and regulations concerning the blind.

 

The National Federation of the Blind is an organization of the blind speaking for themselves.

 

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