The Panama Canal

I went through the Panama Canal a week ago. That's right. I thought I would write about my adventure the next few weeks. There is a lot to talk about - How the canal works, its history, what it looks like up close, what taking a cruise is like, etcetera.

I recently saw "etecerta" written out like that. usually it is "etc." So first of all, we're not just a little too lazy to take the time to finish the list, but we have to abbreviate the fact we're not going to finish it. Actually, I'm not sure I had anything more to add to my list. Rather than bothering to put thought into it, people just go the "etcetera" route. From now on I'm finishing my list or at least dispenising with "etc." And don't get me started with whoever thought we needed the "@" abbreviation for "at".

But I digress. For a long time I wanted to see the Panama Canal. Unless I wanted to be hired onto a freighteer going through, I figured signing up for a cruise was the way to go. Not that I had a bad time, but this is my last cruise. I went to Alaska on a cruise from Seattle and now this one. I'm just not interested in anything else. You can see Italy, Greece, Scandinavia, etcetera on a cruise, but you can go to those places a lot faster by other means. At top speed our ship was going 15-20 knots. Not exacttly sure wht this is and too lazy to look it up, but I'm sure a car or plane can beat it. Our cruise was 15 days long. Most of that was spent being surrounded by blue water and blue sky and chugging along at 15 to 20 knots. I don't regret going at all, but all that blueness gets to be a little much. I don't quite understand the people that spend a lot of their time cruising. They were offering a discount if you sign up for an additional cruise while you're on board. There were a lot of people doing that. Good for them, but it's not my cup of tea.