1985
Mr. Dodson (Neil Dodson) was a favorite teacher of mine. He would play classical music at break time. In fact, he'd make it a game. Whichever side of the room could guess the piece he was playing could get their snacks first. I always remembered The Blue Danube. In the '90s, on a trip through Central and Eastern Europe, I was on a boat going down the Danube River, from Vienna to Budapest. I thought about Mr. Dodson then, and later told him about my experience.
I had traveled from Uzbekistan to Russia, then up to Finland. From there, I took a hydrofoil boat to Estonia. After that, it was trains through Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Poland. The destination after Poland was the Czech Republic. I arrived by train, and then made my way to the Prague airport to meet up with Uncle Jim, who was arriving from Alabama. We spent time in Prague, then took a train to Salzburg (Austria). After Salzburg, we took a train to Vienna. And it was in Vienna where we decided to take the Danube River day cruise to Budapest (Hungary). Pretty amazing experience. When our time in Budapest concluded, we got on another train and went through Slovakia, en route to Prague. We basically had done a loop. All this traveling we had captured on video and camera. Back in Prague, though, at the end of this journey, we left a small duffel bag on the metro platform, near a bench. We didn't realize it until we were on the metro. We went one stop, got out and went right back. It was gone. Camcorder, camera and Sony Walkman, stolen, just like that.
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