The old Rathaus in Bamberg. I live a few blocks away from where this photograph was taken.

This photograph of apparent bourgeois tranquility reveals the ominous threat of Bamberg's treacherous reverse rapids looming on the horizon. Being a surviver of a recent post-grad program in Love, Lies, and Loathing, Bruce was not a stranger to cheap forms of psycho-danger. Nonetheless, the river peril confronting Bruce and his shipmates proved to be especially harrowing to both mind and body.
Accompanying him on this fateful brush with destiny were (clockwise from Bruce's left) social director Beverly Brinn, world traveler Kyoko Miyazaki, ship psychologists Joseph Simons & Pat Burr, and finally UMUC's most beloved biologist & bon vivant, Richard Fry.

Certain death was averted only when the ship's vigilant navigator executed a strategic reversal of course shortly before reaching the rapids. All hands lived happily ever after.

 

The cat resting after a hard day of rest.

 

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