Make New Friends, but Keep the Old…

 I learned this song in brownie scouts at a very young age:

Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, the other is gold.

After arriving in Munich on Monday and having a lively tour of the old town followed by a sobering visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp, we are now on a Viking River Cruise from Nuremberg to Basel, with stops in half-dozen cities along the Rhine-Main rivers. We learned on our June 2025 cruise how easy it is to make new friends for the duration of the trip, and in one case a couple from Arizona was on a road trip last Fall and we met them for a lovely dinner on the Oregon coast.  We have also shared text and email with other travelers met on our travels.  

After only two days on this trip, we have connected with a couple from north of Seattle and found we have much in common, including a mutual friend in Eugene!

We made our second port stop this morning at Bamberg, Germany, and an OLD friend from high school met us as the tour bus unloaded.  We were “marching band kids” and had a good time remembering some of our activities from that time.  Tim is retired Army and married to a German woman, so this is a perfect home for them.

Dunny, Deb, Tim Boles

We will be passing thru more than 50 locks over the next few days, so watch for a picture or two in my next post. 

Enjoy your day, dear reader!