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DAY 10 Panama Canal

November 9, 2009

Just a quick note: You can watch our ship, the MS Statendam transit the canal in real time via the canals website!

Go to www.pancanal.com… we already transited the Miraflores locks, and the Pedro Miguel Locks, but you can watch us at the Gantun Locks at 1:40pm Eastern time!

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just left the panama city and am in a place called colon, on the caribbean sideof the contry. today started out as a very bad day when we left panama city, we found out that the shipping company we are using to send our van over to Columbia was closed, it was also rainng very hard but still hot enough to be sweating, not good for the smell of t...

This morning the first stop was to the office of the Customs for another exam before exporting , we got there early after yesterday and after sitting and waiting for 40 mins we were told they do not do carry out this exam now for vehicles leaving from Colon, The result of this was we set of straight away to get to Colon, On arrival Mike went int...

Today was the day the majority of the ship was waiting for, the crossing of the Panama Canal. I say the majority of the ship because Regan and Kelsie couldn't have cared less. I had warned everyone that we were going to have to get up early and go up on deck so we could get a spot to see the ship enter the Canal. People were planning on camping ...

We rode the bus from Panama city for about 2 hours to get to Colon, which is on the Caribbean side. This was the description in the book: "It can't be emphasized enough that Colon is a crime-ridden city and not safe for visitors." - Naturally we had to go. We arrived and quickly rushed to the train terminal which was the real reason for our visi...

At Sea We are learning to enjoy unlimited free time. Went to a lecture given by former Senator Bob Graham about the failed intelligence system in the U.S. Very interesting. He's promoting his new book, of course. Picked up some DVDs and books from the library and spent the afternoon watching movies. We had dinner at Signatures, the Cordon Blue r...