Sunday's Column - Panama

This week my editor kindly published a piece on our transit through the Panama Canal.  He said to me before I went: "It's bad enough that you keep going off, Trevor, but then you come back and write about it!"

I've written about the trip extensively here and also posted this picture.  It's of our final exit through the locks into the Pacific, at the Miraflores lock.  As you can see, a stadium has been built so that spectators from the city of Panama can come along and watch the ships pass.  Also you can see how close we are to them.  One passenger - a Panamanian - wanted to be able to talk to a relative who was there.  She was not allowed off, but the relative was allowed up to the side of the ship where they could talk.
You can read the entire column at www.sbsun.com/trevorstravels