Day #6 of our Viking River Cruise Grand European Tour got a bit weird. Thanks to low water in this section of the Danube River, we could not continue on the good ship “Bragi,” and had to be transported via Mercedes Benz coaches to another port near Nuremberg, and onto a new ship – the “Skadi.” It ...
Cedar Gap Conservation Area
You know how sometimes, some of the most interesting places in your state lie within an hour’s drive and you’ve never been, because “some day” you’ll get there? That “some day” came the other day, when we had yet to get out and explore to find some fall foliage worth photographing. I had driven by ...
WWII Vet Howard Chrisco
Harry S Truman said, “Study men, not historians.” When Howard Chrisco of St. James looks back at the escape that he and his fellow soldiers made from a Japanese work camp in the Philippines during WWII, he cannot help but think that there were too many “coincidences” to make the smooth transition ...
Viking River Cruise Day #5: Regensburg
Our program director, Karl, briefed us the night before we docked in Regensburg, Germany, and said, “It’s my kind of town.” Regensberg, Germany Known for its reputation as one of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe, Regensburg’s history easily dates back to Roman times. It managed to survive ...
Viking River Cruise Day #4: Passau, Germany
When I look back at our 14-day river cruise – the Grand European Tour – from Viking River Cruises, it seems the most full, packed and eclectic day of all happened on day #4, when we visited Passau, Germany. Passau is in the region of Germany called Bavaria. This is the “City of 3 Rivers” (confluence ...
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