An adventure has begun

 Well, Campers, as the title of this post has stated, Mrs J and I are on a new adventure.  I have mentioned that she is a Travel Agent and had come up with a pretty good idea to put together and get customers interested in Wine Tours.  No, not of the wineries in our area of Texas, although we did start the first version thereof.  (There are probably close to 200 now, we are not part of that number.)

No, she puts together River Cruises in the various wine related area that are serviced by river boats.  As you are reading this missive, we are a couple of days away from starting our second cruise.  We are going to cruise, the Rhine, Main and Mosel rivers in Germany and Luxembourg.  I am late writing this because one, I thought we were leaving Texas on Friday and would arrive in Europe on Saturday.  Unfortunately, we left on Saturday (as scheduled, Yes Dear!) and arrived late Sunday.  But...while you folks are reading this, I and my brave friends will be sitting on the deck (IF warm enough) or in one of the public areas on the ship if not. 

Lufthansa 787.  Actually used this to learn how to copy a picture from an iPhone directly to a MAC.  Worked

After arrival in Prague, Czechoslovakia, we did a bit of a walk around to stretch our legs, I mean it WAS an overnight 9 hour flight from Austin to Frankfurt followed by a 1 hour puddle jump to Prague.  Our concierge gave us some pretty good info on important things to go and see.  (I think I'm going to skip the Concentration Camp. I don't know.) Then Tuesday we'll be on our way.  Our Good Friend from Texas Hills Winery is leading the wine seminars as well as providing excellent Texas versions of their wines.  We've done this before to great enthusiasm, no reason to believe there will be anything different this time.

We've got two of those scheduled and the rest of the cruise, 7 days, we will be seeing various parts of Germany. (I'm one of the very few fighter pilots that never served a tour in Germany, all in the Pacific or pointed that way from the States.)

Then we've got two days in Reims studying Champagne, then a day in Paris before we fly home.  Obviously, I didn't bring my desktop PC with me (and it's acting like it's on it's dying breath anyhow) and I'm still trying to figure out transferring pictures from my iPhone to my new Mac. With a little luck I'll fix that shortly.

Unfortunately, the "No Sleeping Authorized" flight from Austin and the second flight in Germany and a few other incidents that delayed arrival at the Hotel, have left me pretty tired.  I think I'm going to find dinner and call it a night.

Peace Out y'all!

juvat