Our Buddy Doc Wylie

[ironpeddler]

Since he retired recently, Tom and Mrs. Doc have turned into quite the International Travelers. Here's his recent stop & log entry...

"We just returned from our river cruise on the Danube RIver. Started in Nuremberg, Germany then on to Regensburg, Vilshofen and Passau in Germany. Melk and the incomparable Vienna in Austria, then finished in Budapest, Hungary with a glimpse of Bratislava, Slovakia from the deck of our ship."

...and the caption to this picture was..

"As a matter of fact... yes, it IS a Cuban cigar I'm enjoying in the deck of our ship, the MS Bolero."

PS: the cigar was a Partagas...

 

[aquiring93]

Looking at this makes me want to retire and I'm not even out of my freshman year of college... :whistling:

 

[Tall Paul]

Very cool read! My wife and I love to travel and hope to be able to retire like this some day.

Happy Travels Doc,

Paul

 

[The Black Cloud]

Good stuff.

 

[gtadroptop]

Nice!! :thumbs:

 

[beyond the band]

Yes!

 

[stogieman]

:thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

 

[{tpc}]

Very cool. I will probably never retire, but one can always dream of it.

 

[Doc Wylie]

I'm embarrassed by all this attention! :blush:

But.. it was a great trip on a Viking River Cruises ship (the guys who blow up your email inbox with their marketing materials) and IMO the only way for an old fart like me to travel in Europe. Surprisingly cost-effective considering the ship is your hotel, all meals are most of the excursions are included and at lunch and dinner you get all the free beer and wine you can drink! We've now managed to navigate the Rhine and Danube over the past two years and hope to add the Seine to the list next year. Many memorable moments, as you would imagine, but it still astounds me to be able to walk into a tobacco shop and just walk over to the Cubans and pick one out. Perhaps it was just the setting and all, but it was a really nice smoke!

 

[BlindedByScience]

I have another sabbatical in two years, and the wife and I are most definitely looking into a river cruise. Sounds like the Viking Cruise folks have it down pretty well.....

 

[4cbln3]

Now THAT is something I would like to one day do with my wife. Good to see you enjoying life, Doc.