This Week: The Panama Canal

And so it goes.  Ship after ship comes and goes through the canal.  There is always a traffic jam of ships waiting to enter the locks from either side.  The canal operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It has only closed temporarily a few times in it's almost 100 year existence.  The most recent time was for a few hours during the U.S. invasion.

I kind of wonder if there was some dormant Panama gene that was activated when I stepped foot in the country.  Generally Panamanians are known for being very proud of their country and I feel the same and I was only there a week.  The Panama Canal really is an engineering marvel and it was one of the highlights of my trip even though at the time I was feeling under the weather.  I could sit here for hours watching the ships rise and fall and go through the lock system.  I look forward to seeing it again.