Peg and Tracy Tyler have done their fair share of traveling throughout the world (a given seeing as how Peg is a retired travel agent) but they never did the one excursion Tracy always wanted to do — a riverboat cruise.
That all changed a few weeks back when Peg and Tracy teamed up with their friends Lucile Bodenheimer and Jim Holiday to cruise the Danube River in central Europe.
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