Interrupted Escape: Where to Go From Thirty-Seven‪?‬

American music professor Craig Simpson gets jolted out of a relationship with college student Kurt that Simpson thought might be permanent on the cusp of a trip they were to take together of a cruise up the Rhine/Main river from Amsterdam to Nurnberg, capped off by attending the Bayreuth Wagner Festival.
The breakup comes at a bad time. Simpson, thirty-seven, is staring at entering his middle age with doubts of the role, if any, he can sustain in an active gay lifestyle.
He once was a submissive to older men; but for the last nine years he’s been a dominant for younger men. Now he doesn’t know if he has a role to play at all. He goes on the trip by himself, seeing it as an escape from his current sexual dilemma and resolved to use the time to see if he should or even can transition into a nonactive lifestyle.
As he journeys toward Bayreuth, though, that resolve is challenged from every direction.
Warnings: This story contains graphic language, casual sex, and m/m sex scenes.