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96 DANUBE: BIKING & BOATING
We read about the ‘bike and boat’ option on
the Danube and got excited. The same river
and itinerary, but biking about 30 miles
each day along a path through the four
countries, exploring, discovering and hav-
ing experiences that could only happen on
two wheels.

108 SODERBERGH’S SPIRIT WORLD
“I knew something would happen. I knew I
was going to have a relationship with this
spirit, which is a sentence that had never
been in my head—ever.” Steven Soderbergh,
the American director behind such films as
Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich,
and Magic Mike,.

Carl H. Larsen

Carl H. Larsen is a veteran journalist based in San Diego. He now focuses on
travel writing, and issummoned to pull out his notebook whenever there’s the plain-
tive cry of a steam locomotive nearby. In San Diego, he is a college-extension instruc-
tor who has led courses on the Titanic and the popular TV series “Downton Abbey.”

Maribeth Mellin

Maribeth Mellin is an award-winning journalist whose travel articles have ap-
peared in Endless Vacation Magazine, U-T San Diego and Dallas Morning
News among others. She also travels and writes for several websites including
CNN Travel, Concierge.com and Zagat, and has authored travel books on Peru,
Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Hawaii and California.

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